MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - The improvement of relations with Russia is a hotly debated issue in the European Union, British Minister of State for Europe Chris Bryant told Interfax in an interview.
"We want to work with Russia. It is one of the things that we talk about with all my other counterparts in the EU. We talk about how we can improve our relations with Russia all the time," Bryant said.
The British minister, however, rapped approaches to NATO stated in the recently adopted Russia's new military doctrine. "Recently the Russian cabinet produced a new military doctrine, which said that the biggest threat to Russia was NATO and the lowest threat was international terrorism. But this is clearly untrue; NATO has no intent against Russia," he said.
"I don't think any Russian soldier has been involved or will be involved in any action against NATO, whereas, you know, Russians have died from international terrorism," he added, noting that there have been many terrorist attacks in the last few years.
"So, I would challenge Russia and say: no, you are wrong on this," he concluded.