No tradeoff: NATO Deputy chief on possible cooperation with Russia

REUTERS

Russia proposed to “cooperate against terrorism and end our measures that have been taken in response to their aggression against Ukraine,” the NATO official said at a joint press point with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite.

“We are not going to make any kind of tradeoff,” Vershbow said.

Read alsoPentagon: Russia top global threat to U.S.“And even if we could collaborate more against terrorism, we are not going to abandon our firm response to that aggression and the illegal annexation of Crimea in particular,” said the NATO deputy chief, as “Russia has undermined the basic principles of the European security.”