Russia expects NATO to answer its questions regarding files released by WikiLeaks indicating that the Alliance has devised plans to defend Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from a possible threat from Russia, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"With one hand, NATO seeks agreement with us on joint partnership, and with the other, it makes a decision that it needs to defend," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.
"So when is NATO more sincere?" he said.
"We have asked these questions and are expecting answers to them. We think we are entitled to that," he said.
Moscow has read some diplomatic cables published on WikiLeaks, Lavrov said. "We have read some of them, which are available in spite of the [classified] stamps on them," he said.
"My attitude toward this is philosophical. It is interesting to read, including what ambassadors write to provide a stream of information to their capitals. Some things evoke serious questions, in particular, as concerns the declassification and leak of information about NATO military plans to rebuff a Russian attack on the Baltic states. Of course we have taken note of this," Lavrov said in response to a request by Interfax to comment on the alliance’s plans to defend the Baltic states and Poland from a hypothetical Russian threat.
