MOSCOW. May 29 (Interfax) - Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov has discussed the importance of French President Emmanuel Macron's comment on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) regarding NATO's failure to keep the promises it made to Moscow.
"It's worth carefully considering what the French president said in St. Petersburg," Ushakov said at the opening ceremony of the forum Primakov Readings.
He mentioned Macron's remark on NATO's policy toward Russia.
"Only a handful of Western leaders have been so frank and straightforward about this issue, which is quite important for the entire world order," Ushakov said.
"I believe that the error made over the past 20 years was that we in NATO have not completely observed all of the commitments we took upon ourselves in a timely manner, and this caused certain fears, quite substantiated ones. We didn't have the trust that Russia was justly counting on," Macron said at a plenary session of the SPIEF.