Russia\u2019s foreign minister said Monday that the country is suspending its mission to NATO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the move is in response to last week\u2019s expulsion by NATO of eight members of Russia\u2019s mission to the military alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NATO said that they were secretly working as intelligence officers and halved the size of Moscow\u2019s team able to work at its headquarters. Lavrov also announced that NATO\u2019s military liaison and information offices in Moscow would be closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs a result of NATO\u2019s deliberate moves, we have practically no conditions for elementary diplomatic work and in response to NATO\u2019s actions we suspend the work of our permanent mission to NATO, including the work of the chief military envoy, probably from Nov. 1. Or it may take several more days,\u201d Lavrov said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement that NATO\u2019s actions \u201cconfirm that they are not interested in an equal dialogue and joint work to deescalate military-political tensions. The alliance\u2019s line towards our country is becoming more and more aggressive. The Russian threat\u2019 is inflated in order to strengthen the internal unity of the alliance, to create the appearance of its relevance\u2019 in modern geopolitical conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lavrov said that contact between the Western alliance and Moscow could be done through the Russian embassy in Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Russian mission isn\u2019t based at NATO\u2019s headquarters, but in a leafy neighborhood in the south of the Belgian capital, Brussels. NATO suspended practical cooperation with Russia in 2014 after it annexed Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula, but has kept channels open for high-level meetings and for military-to-military cooperation. But the NATO-Russia Council, their preferred foraum, has only met sporadically since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia and NATO also have been at odds over Moscow\u2019s nuclear missile development, aerial intrusions into NATO airspace and the buzzing of allied ships by fighter planes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Official talks between them have been limited in recent years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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