“Honestly, I remain optimistic.
Optimism that the minds of colleagues, many of whom already now belong to another generation, to a new generation who have forgotten the fundamental foundations of European security, that we will still have to return to the foundations that the diplomats of the previous generation laid down sooner or later ”, RIA Novosti quotes him.
Kelin also said that the Russian side will not make concessions during the negotiations.
Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko, during a press conference following a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, said that the alliance should provide Russia with legal guarantees regarding the non-expansion of the bloc to the east.