BRUSSELS Top officials from NATO and Russia have clashed in public over who is to blame for the dramatically worsened state of East-West relations. <\/p>\n
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday \"the big difference is that we are a defensive alliance.\" <\/p>\n
Speaking to a leading member of Russia's parliament, Stoltenberg told him, \"you send troops into other countries.\" <\/p>\n
The Russian, Konstantin Kosachev, flatly denied Russia is using its regular troops in Ukraine. Kosachev, chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's State Duma, said the U.S.-led alliance talks about the need to respect international law and borders, but itself bombed a sovereign country, the former Yugoslavia, in 1999. <\/p>\n
Stoltenberg and Kosachev spoke at a panel discussion organized by the Brussels Forum, an annual event sponsored by the German Marshall Fund. <\/p>\n
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