Alliance Secretary General noted that in relations with Moscow, the West "cannot be naive".

Despite strained relations with Moscow, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for dialogue with Russia. He stated this in an interview with the newspaper Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung, published on Tuesday, November 6, according to Deutsche Welle.

"We do not want a confrontation, but a dialogue with Russia," said Stoltenberg.

According to him, the West "cannot be naive", but should "stick together in front of Moscow".

"We learned from such German politicians as Helmut Schmidt and Willy Brandt during the Cold War that we need to talk with Russia," Stoltenberg said..

He recalled that, despite all political tensions, the West allegedly manages to find a solution to problems with the Russian Federation.

"The greatest danger to the world today is the unpredictability of international politics," Stoltenberg believes.

According to the NATO Secretary General, during the Cold War, the West and the Eastern Bloc were enemies of each other, but today the challenges are “more complex”. "From European history, we all learned that the costs of war are much more expensive than the price of peace," Stoltenberg specified..

On November 1, 2018, the NATO Secretary General called on the Kremlin to implement the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF), for violating which the United States could impose sanctions on Russia, since there was no dialogue on this issue.

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