Some of the NATO countries seem to be staking on military confrontation with Russia, hence resumption of Russia’s relations with the alliance is hardly ever possible in the foreseeable future, a Russian lawmaker said on Tuesday according to Tass news agency.

"There is a group of states within NATO which are staking on military confrontation with Russia. These countries are the Baltic republics, Romania, Poland, Great Britain and the United States," Alexei Pushkov, the chairman of the international committee of the Russian State Duma lower parliament house, said in an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily.

Moscow, in his words, should take it "as a signal that resumption of relations with NATO is out of the agenda in a foreseeable future."

"At least until NATO abandons its new strategy of advance deployment and intimidation of Russia, until it returns to the Founding Act signed in 1997, until it brings it home to the fighting-mad ‘young European nations’ that they will never be let drag the Western alliance into a potential military conflict with Moscow," he said.

Source : MENA