MOSCOW. March 26 (Interfax-AVN) - Moscow does not object to the presence of the countries that are about to join NATO at the NATO-Russia Council meeting in Brussels on April 2, a Foreign Ministry source told Interfax on Friday.
"We have nothing against it. The NATO-Russia Council's charter stipulates that the Council is comprised of Russia and the NATO member-states," the source said.
The seven countries joining the alliance - Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Estonia - will become NATO members at an official ceremony in Washington on March 29, he said.
At the same time, the diplomat said, "We have maintained and will maintain that all NATO member-states included in the Council bear the same commitments, including those concerning military deterrence."
Therefore, Moscow will continue to insist that the Baltic countries and Slovenia join the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, he said.