NATO-Russia Council to meet at ambassadors level in Brussels

Rogozin also did not rule out that the meeting participants will consider the situation formed after the North Korean nuclear test. ?This theme is not on the official agenda, but it falls under one of directions of our work on non-proliferation,? the diplomat noted. The Wednesday meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will be the second after the resumption of its work (April 29) after the South Ossetian conflict. According to Rogozin, ?the weather in our relation is far from summer.? This situation has been aggravated ?by the absurd decision of the Alliance to expel two Russian career diplomats and its stubborn desire to conduct, in spite of everything, its manoeuvres in Georgia.? The Russian ambassador also noted that the ?spy scandal is factually over on the reciprocity principles.? ?NATO expelled two our diplomats and we expelled two their staff members. We are quits now and can move forward,? he said. ?The majority of members of the NATO-Russia Council, and first of all Russia realise that this council should work given any weather. The recurrence of the situation in which the work of this body was blocked as a result of a major crisis in August last year, is inadmissible,? Rogozin stated. In this connection the RF ambassador to NATO said that there exist three initiatives on the qualitative improvement of the principles and procedure of the work of the NATO-Russia Council, formats of its meetings and subject matters for discussion. ?One of these initiatives belongs to Russia, the rest - to NATO countries. All of them are actively discussed at preparatory consultations and contain a number of very interesting for our dialogue proposals, the discussion of which in detail is so far early, however,? Rogozin said; Kazinform cites ITAR-TASS. See www.itar-tass.com for full version