Naryshkin: Montenegro's Euro-Atlantic integration should be considered as joining alliance unfriendly to Russia - Jun. 03, 2017

Naryshkin: Montenegro’s Euro-Atlantic integration should be considered as joining alliance unfriendly to Russia

Published June 3, 2017 at 5:06 pm

(Front row from L) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, King Philippe of Belgium, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, (second row from L) Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Czech President Milos Zeman, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Iceland's Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Latvia's President Raimonds Vejonis, (third row from L) Lituania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar and Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic pose for a family picture during the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on May 25.

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MOSCOW – Montenegro’s accession to NATO should be considered as its joining the alliance, which is unfriendly towards Russia, Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin said.

“You know that one cannot call NATO a bloc friendly towards us. You should proceed from that,” Naryshkin told Interfax on Saturday, replying to a question as to whether Montenegro’s accession to NATO poses a threat to Russia.

As reported on June 2, the ceremony on the occasion of Montenegro’s joining NATO will take place at the organization’s headquarters in Brussels on June 7, 2017.