Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. October 24. INTERFAX - Russia's rejection of relations with NATO will not entail anything terrible, the efforts of the Russian Federation to develop cooperation with the alliance were still in vain, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
"The aggressive position of NATO has never been a secret. This is a bloc that was created against our country. And no peace-loving statements, no camouflage of this aggressive orientation of NATO, they are not able to hide the true purpose of this bloc. This is an aggressive bloc that considers us an enemy. And therefore, nothing terrible will happen if, against the background of escalating aggressiveness, against the background of such declarations that the main task is to restrain us, we simply abandon these relations," Peskov told journalist Pavel Zarubin in the Moscow program.The Kremlin.Putin" on the TV channel "Russia-1".
He noted that despite the aggressiveness of the NATO bloc, Russia has always advocated the development of relations.