Moscow. January 28. INTERFAX - Russia will take retaliatory measures if it fails to reach an agreement with the West on security guarantees, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
"If our attempts to agree on mutually acceptable principles of ensuring security in Europe fail, then we will take retaliatory measures," he said in an interview with Russian radio stations.
Lavrov recalled the words of President Vladimir Putin that these measures will be very different, and that the president promised to make decisions based on proposals submitted by the military.
"Naturally, other departments will also participate in the work of these proposals. At least now there is an interdepartmental study of the responses received from the United States and NATO," Lavrov said.
He noted that "against the background of the paper that was sent from NATO, the American response is almost a model of diplomatic decency."
"The response from NATO is so ideologized, so it breathes the exclusivity of the North Atlantic Alliance, its special mission, its special purpose, that I am a little ashamed of those who wrote these texts," Lavrov said.
