Thus, Burger commented on the publication of Der Spiegel about the allegedly discovered document of 1991 on the unacceptability of NATO expansion to the east.
“I would like to state once again that neither the 'four plus two' agreement nor the founding act of NATO-Russia contained Russia's promises that NATO would not expand to the east.
There is no mention of this at all in the “four plus two” agreement, and therefore the opposite statements are not true, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on February 14, called NATO's eastward expansion endless and very dangerous.
According to him, Russia has been talking about non-expansion of NATO for 30 years, while the infrastructure of the alliance has already appeared at the Russian borders.