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The anticipated joining by Montenegro, and also Bosnia and Herzegovina, of NATO will not be good for relations with Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry European Cooperation Department Director Andrei Kelin said.

“NATO is currently pursuing extremely unfriendly policies on Russia, foreign troops are being deployed in the territory of the Baltic states. The joining of NATO in this situation will not increase stability, but will increase confrontation in the relations between countries,” he said at a young diplomats’ forum.

“I would ask for that to be borne in mind: Montenegro is now going to enter there, I know that they are encouraging Bosnia and Herzegovina [to do that] as well,” Kelin said. “This will not improve our relations,” he said.