Zakharova commented on NATO's position on the issue of non-expansion of the alliance

She recalled the statements following the talks in Washington on February 2, 1990, by German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and US Secretary of State James Baker.

“We have agreed that there is NO intention to expand the NATO defense zone to the east.

This applies not only to the GDR, which we do not want to include, but in general "(video: ARD, Der Spiegel)", - Zakharova is quoted in the Telegram channel.

She also cited a statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

“Genscher and Baker did not know that 32 years later, NATO Secretary General J. Stoltenberg ... would easily and casually refute their words: “No.

NATO makes decisions together with 30 member countries, there is no decision anywhere in which NATO countries agreed to abandon what is written in NATO's founding treaty, the Washington Treaty.

Zakharova added that NATO members and representatives "refute each other on issues of principle."

“So what kind of organization is this, if every year its members and representatives refute each other on issues of principle and continue to make statements that are not in line with the current policy?”

- wrote the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that Russia has been talking about the non-expansion of NATO for 30 years, while the infrastructure of the alliance has already appeared at the Russian borders.