BRUSSELS. April 2 (Interfax) - By ignoring the fundamental UN Charter provision on the peoples' right to self-determination and refusing to recognize the outcomes of the Crimean referendum, NATO is driving its relationship with Russia into a deadlock, Russian permanent envoy to NATO Alexander Grushko said.
"The allegations on Moscow's aggressive designs posing a threat to the NATO countries are absolutely groundless and farfetched. If any danger could even emerge, then only from nationalistic and radical forces in Ukraine and in the case of the further deterioration of the situation in this country," Grushko told Interfax on Wednesday.
"The additional measures announced [by NATO] and aimed at the so-called protection of the Eastern European members are absolutely unfounded," he said.