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During the meeting, Lavrov interrupted Stoltenberg, in an exchange two European officials described as “rude,” and accused NATO of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine and abandoning Afghanistan. Lavrov, according to a European official and a person familiar with the meeting, also said the NATO-Russia Council — a forum established in 2002 to promote cooperation between the two sides — was pointless, complaining that NATO members often gang up on Russia.
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