OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow hasn't appointed a new representative to NATO yet, because it does not know what it is constructively to conduct dialogue with the alliance about. This was stated by Russia's Permanent Representative to the EU Vladimir Chizhov in an interview with a German newspaper published on Friday.

“We currently do not know what we could talk constructively with NATO,” he said. According to him, the appointment of a new permanent representative to the alliance will happen "definitely not tomorrow".

"True, there is an official format of dialogue - the Russia-NATO Council, but NATO wants to talk there all the time only about Ukraine and Georgia. Moreover, both countries are not related to NATO at all", Chizhov said. To the publication’s remark that it would be possible to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, he noted that the alliance “does not want this”.

Ukraine and Georgia, continued Chizhov, are a kind of "right to exist for the alliance". “After all, he was in a severe existential crisis, and suddenly both countries fell like ripe fruits from a tree onto NATO’s knees. So a reasonable justification was created for the alliance to exist”, the permanent representative said.