MOSCOW. Nov 30 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow and Kyiv may phase out their military-technical cooperation should Ukraine join NATO, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.
"This is possible in principle," Ivanov told journalists in Moscow following negotiations with his Ukrainian counterpart Anatoliy Hrytsenko.
"The joining of this or any other bloc is a sovereign right of any state, but another sovereign right of any state is the right to choose its partners for military-technical cooperation," he said.
"Not everything is determined only by politics - cooperation involves economics and other factors," he said.
The deputy prime minister emphasized that he touched on only "one of the consequences" of Ukraine's possible accession to NATO, but there could also be others, including "those concerning the border."