MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Russia deems the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) to be a good dialogue platform, but recalls that it was NATO member countries who put the NRC activity on hold because of their unwillingness to be transparent in the issue of military infrastructure, State Duma Vice-Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy told Interfax on Thursday.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has urged Russia to demonstrate higher levels of transparency in the field of military infrastructure and said that the NRC is a very useful body.
"We are happy and ready [to do so], Russia stays open, but it was them who stopped the activity of the NATO-Russia Council," Tolstoy said.
As to Stoltenberg's transparency appeal to Moscow, he said, "it would also be polite for their part to notify us about lots of things which they neglect to mention."
Tolstoy added that all questions related to the activity of the NATO-Russia Council were a jurisdiction of the Russian Foreign Ministry.