NATO-Russia Council to focus on troop buildup in Eastern Europe

The NATO-Russia Council (NRC) is to discuss the decision to strengthen NATO's eastern flank, made during the 8-9 July summit of the alliance, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Tuesday.

The agenda is also to include safety measures over the Baltic Sea, according to earlier reports.

"Russia is our biggest neighbour, [it] cannot and should not be isolated," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at the Warsaw summit, stressing the western alliance’s willingness to seek dialogue with Moscow.

NATO country leaders meeting in Warsaw on Friday and Saturday decided to deploy four multinational, rotating battalions to Poland and three Baltic countries, which all fear potential Russian aggression after Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. (ał/pk)

Source: IAR, CNN