The statements by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about supporting Georgia’s membership in NATO are provocative, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement following the Geneva consultations on security and stability in the South Caucasus.

In Geneva, regular consultations were held in the framework of international discussions on the South Caucasus, which were attended by representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia, the Russian Federation and the United States under the co-chairmanship of the UN, OSCE and the EU. The Russian delegation was headed by State Secretary - Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.