SAYS ANTI-NATO BLOC UNREALISTIC…

Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev described as unrealistic the idea that Moscow may set up a military-political bloc with other countries to counterbalance NATO’s enlargement. "Looking at the map, I do not see with whom we could form an anti-NATO alliance," he said at a session of the ministry’s Foreign Policy Council yesterday. The Council brings together prominent political figures.

…Favors Dialogue with NATO…