Russia to freeze military cooperation with NATO
SWEdEN: Norway confirmed on Wednesday that Russia would freeze its
cooperation with the Western alliance NATO, according to reports
reaching here from Oslo. Russian authorities informed the Norwegian
Foreign Ministry on Wednesday that officials in Moscow were immediately
halting, canceling or postponing all planned military cooperation with
NATO ‘s members, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten quoted government
sources as saying.
The warning from Russia comes a day after NATO members meeting at a
summit in Brussels criticized Russia’s military aggression in Georgian
territory and voted to suspend cooperation with NATO’s Russian council,
the daily said.
“There’s no doubt that our relationship to Russian has now chilled,”
Espen Barth Eide, state secretary in the Norwegian Defense Ministry,
told Aftenposten.
Around 10 joint military exercises were planned involving Russian and
NATO members through the end of this year. They will probably all be
canceled, the daily said.
Stockholm: Thursday, Xinhua |