Russia has no “Vet’s Right” in the issue of the entry of countries in NATO, this issue can only be resolved by these states and the Alliance himself, said the representative of Pentagon John Kirby, responding to the request of journalists to comment on the statements of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the expansion of NATO to the East .
“NATO membership is a question that concerns a concrete sovereign state and NATO. This is not the question in which Mr. Putin has the right of veto. It does not work like that,” the TASS reports the words of the Pentagon representative.
Kirby added that “will not speculate relative to the future, the expansion of NATO and the place of Ukraine in this process.” “But this decision that can be accepted only by the Alliance and Ukraine,” he added.
At the press conference on Tuesday, following the meeting with the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, President Vladimir Putin reminded that in due time Russia “threw, well, just deceived”, promising “not promoting the infrastructure of the NATO block east inch “, and that the” open doors “policy, from which the alliance does not intend to refuse, is not legal anywhere else.