Lavrov: EU More Bureaucratic Than NATO

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Bureaucracy is more wide-spread in the European Union than it is within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

According to the Russian foreign minister, Europe currently wants to cut ties with Moscow because that is what is being dictated by the United States, but it is not, however, a traditional Western European stance.

Lavrov also stressed that Russia cannot regard as lawful, from the perspective of the national interests of each individual state, the interests that NATO is defending under the influence of the United States.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] turned into an ideological organization, where member-states are actively searching for anti-Russian arguments to show off to each other, Lavrov stated.

"We are getting the impression that the Russia-NATO Council was called only to go over the Ukrainian issue once again. This means that the North Atlantic alliance has turned into some kind of an ideological organization where its members are trying to show off in front of each other their ability to find anti-Russian arguments," Lavrov told the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

"Of course, not everyone is engaged in that, there are people there who understand that it is a road to nowhere."

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