MOSCOW, April 27. /TASS/. The Russia-NATO Council’s meeting held on April 20 produced no reasons for optimism regarding the chances of lifting the freeze from military cooperation between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told the 5th international security conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

"European Security matters will be discussed tomorrow. The situation in this field is deplorable. Russia’s cooperation with the NATO and EU countries remains frozen not through our fault. The April 20 meeting of the Russia-NATO Council produced no optimism," Shoigu said.

He said old weapons control patterns were no longer operational, while the existing mechanisms were being used by partners in an unseemly way and a new architecture of conventional weapons control would be hard to create in the context of the shortage of trust in Europe.