“We have always been categorically opposed to NATO expansion.
Those promises that were given to Gorbachev were violated by Western partners.
As a result, we have the situation we have when no one trusts each other," BelTA quotes the minister.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin called the eastward expansion of NATO endless and very dangerous.
Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov noted that NATO's eastward expansion runs counter to the principle of the indivisibility of security in Europe.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that plans to strengthen the presence of the North Atlantic Alliance in the eastern direction will depend on the development of the situation around Ukraine.