BRUSSELS. May 13 (Interfax-AVN) - An ambassadorial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council could be held in Brussels on May 27, Russia's NATO office informed Interfax on Wednesday.
"We are proposing this date, and the ambassadorial meeting is likely to be held on May 27," it said.
"But Russia has not received a reply to any of its proposals on the agenda raised," the official said.
The proposals have to do with strategic security issues, he said.
Concerning the ministerial meeting, it would be premature to speculate on the date, the Russian office said.
This was confirmed by Russia's NATO Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin. "I don't think a ministerial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council will be held any time soon," Rogozin told Interfax on Wednesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was to attend the Council's ministerial meeting set for May 19, but Russia found it inappropriate to hold the meeting in conditions when the NATO leaders and, subsequently, the Belgian Foreign Ministry, made the decision to expel two Russian diplomats, the Russian office's staff members Viktor Kochukov and Vasily Chizhov, from Brussels.