NATO-Russia Council resumption can help overcome differences — lawmaker

[Stratford57]

December, 2:
NATO's chief says he wants to use a special council which includes Russia as a "tool for political engagement" amid heightened tensions on a variety of fronts.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier favors reviving the council. He credited Russia's "constructive role" in trying to end the Syria conflict.
NATO to Explore Reviving Talks With Russia Through Council

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put forward a proposal to convene a NATO-Russia Council meeting at the level of permanent representatives. Moscow is ready to hold such a meeting - Russia has a lot of questions to the alliance, said the minister. "I’ve just learned that NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has suggested convening a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council," Lavrov said. "Russia has never refused to work in this format or any other formats." Lavrov recalled that "after Mikhail Saakashvili’s aggression in South Ossetia the Russia-NATO Council was frozen at the United States’ initiative." "Once Mr. Stoltenberg has now been allowed to display such an initiative, we will get together and see what our NATO counterparts would like to tell us," Lavrov said. "We have very many questions to NATO, including those about the violations of the agreements that had existed within the Russia-NATO Council. There is a subject matter for discussion."
NATO-Russia Council resumption can help overcome differences — lawmaker

And if NATO-Russia Council resumption happens, it will mean a lot of good things for the whole world. And one of them will hopefully be:

Bye, bye, miss Ukrainian pie…

 

[tinydancer]

December, 2:
NATO's chief says he wants to use a special council which includes Russia as a "tool for political engagement" amid heightened tensions on a variety of fronts.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier favors reviving the council. He credited Russia's "constructive role" in trying to end the Syria conflict.
NATO to Explore Reviving Talks With Russia Through Council

Earlier on Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg put forward a proposal to convene a NATO-Russia Council meeting at the level of permanent representatives. Moscow is ready to hold such a meeting - Russia has a lot of questions to the alliance, said the minister. "I’ve just learned that NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has suggested convening a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council," Lavrov said. "Russia has never refused to work in this format or any other formats." Lavrov recalled that "after Mikhail Saakashvili’s aggression in South Ossetia the Russia-NATO Council was frozen at the United States’ initiative." "Once Mr. Stoltenberg has now been allowed to display such an initiative, we will get together and see what our NATO counterparts would like to tell us," Lavrov said. "We have very many questions to NATO, including those about the violations of the agreements that had existed within the Russia-NATO Council. There is a subject matter for discussion."
NATO-Russia Council resumption can help overcome differences — lawmaker

And if NATO-Russia Council resumption happens, it will mean a lot of good things for the whole world. And one of them will hopefully be:

Bye, bye, miss Ukrainian pie…

I greatly respect Foreign Minister Lavrov . I think he deserves a bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbig Christmas bonus from his boss for working 24/7.

 

[Stratford57]

Yes, Tiny, Lavrov is a man. Meanwhile Ukrainian rulers are terrified to be abandoned by West.

Take 35 seconds and watch that cool video of Paris Climate Summit: Poroshenko desperately but in vain wants Obama to notice him.

 

[Stratford57]

Same day NATO foreign ministers have agreed to invite Montenegro to join the military alliance in spite of numerous protests against NATO in Montenegro. The move is likely to lead to further deterioration in NATO’s relations with Russia, which sees the alliance’s expansion eastward as a threat to its national security.
NATO foreign ministers agree to offer Montenegro membership
PressTV-Montenegrins hold anti-NATO protest

Montenegro is a small country in SoutheasternEurope bordered byCroatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina,Serbia,Kosovo, Albana, and the Adriatic Sea. Montenegro has an estimated 2014 population of 621,000.
Montenegro Population 2015 - World Population Review

Just wondering: why does NATO need Montenegro so much???