NEWPORT Wales (Reuters) - NATO stands by a 1997 agreement on cooperation with Russia even though Moscow has breached it through its actions in Ukraine, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.
She told a news conference that leaders of the 28-nation alliance agreed at a summit in Wales that the NATO-Russia Founding Act remained a key part of Europe's security architecture. Cooperation was suspended in March after Russia seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
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