“Alliances meet the interests of a certain era, and when they disappear, the question arises of the need for organization. I think that NATO has been asking this question for many years, ”Kneisl quotes RIA Novosti.
She noted that the alliance was already close to an “explosion” shortly before the 2003 Iraq war.
The ex-minister also added that NATO needs to accept a number of proposals from the Russian side.
“We need to stop antagonizing Russia and presenting it in a false light,” Kneisl added.
On December 4, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced that he did not consider Russia an enemy of NATO.
On December 3, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in an interview with the Polish publication Rzeczpospolita said that the alliance has no list of enemies.