“I believe that we must maintain interaction with Russia,” RIA Novosti quoted Stoltenberg as saying at a speech at the Georgetown Institute.
He noted that NATO does not need an arms race or a new cold war.
Nevertheless, he said, Russia's relations with the alliance are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
Earlier, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the United States, under the guise of training centers, is creating NATO military bases in Ukraine.