Russia is ready to use military force against neighboring countries, as it happened in Georgia and Ukraine-this statement, was made by the NATO Secretary General in Brussels .

The Defence Ministers of NATO member states focused on the strengthening and increasing NATO contingent in the Black Sea region, and discussed Russia`s actions at the borders of NATO memeber states.

As Jens Stoltenberg stated , the Alliance is in favor of negotiations with Russia, but the Kremlin is bound to respond to the appropriate actions.

"Ministers of Defense meeting on other issues in the Black Sea region, NATO foresees discussed. United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Turkey is ready to contribute to the strengthening of the alliance. An international team of NATO forces by land, air and sea operations to refine the work.

NATO does not seek confrontation with Russia. We don’t want a new cold war and we don’t want a new arms race and therefore what NATO does is defensive and it is proportionate. At the same time, NATO has to react when we over a long period of time have seen a substantial military build-up by Russia and we have seen them modernizing their military capabilities and most importantly we have seen them willing to use military force against neighbors Crimea, Ukraine and also Georgia and we also saw a threatening rhetoric from Russia. So NATO has to respond to continue to deliver credible deterrence in a new security environment and we have to remember that the reason why we delivered deterrence, why NATO is strong is not because we want to provoke a conflict, but it is because we want to prevent a conflict; and the best way to do that is to stay strong, united and be firm in our response.

We combine this message with a very clear message about that we seek dialogue, we seek a more cooperative relationship with Russia and we want transparency. Therefore we are transparent on our exercises, we are transparent on our increased presence and actually at the last meeting of the NATO-Russia Council we spent a lot of time going through what NATO is doing. Illustrating exactly what we are doing, but also by being transparent contributing to avoid even increased tensions. Especially when tensions are high, it’s important that we keep channels for political dialogue open. Then we have seen deployments of different assets; at the same time I think it is important to underline that every nation has the right to exercise their troops, its forces and Russia has the right to operate in international waters with its naval assets. So for me that underlines the importance of not reacting in each individual event, but look at the brother strategic picture and have a strategic approach; and we have done exactly that, based on a development we have seen over a long period of time., "- said Jens Stoltenberg.