MOSCOW, December 5. /TASS/. The North Atlantic Alliance has already destroyed all normal contacts with Moscow, so statements about abolishing the Russia-NATO Council are irrelevant, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.
Earlier, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the bloc was preparing a decision to dissolve the Council.
"It is senseless to comment on this because, amid all the other aggressive statements that have been made and actions taken to literally destroy normal relations - I don’t mean good or friendly, but at least normal - or even basic contacts, these plans don’t really matter," Zakharova said.
According to her, NATO "should ask itself another question - what are they trying to achieve with such statements, rhetoric, and aggressive actions?"
Relations between Russia and NATO were established in the early 1990s. In 1997, the parties signed the Founding Act, declaring that they did not consider each other adversaries and creating a framework for consultations. The Russia-NATO Council was established in 2002.
