NATO will not counter Russian propaganda with propaganda, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference in Brussels following the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on projecting stability.

"We have seen some increased, eh, Russian presence, also in the Western Balkans. We’ve also seen some reports about Russian citizens being involved in a very serious incident in Montenegro on election day" – Stoltenberg said, expressing hope for a proper investigation of these events.

"We will counter Russian propaganda with an open free debate because we believe that the facts and the truth in the long run will prevail" – declared Nato Secretary General, according to the transcript published on the NATO website.

We believe in open free democratic societies and we believe that reform will increase the resilience of the countries in the Western Balkans and that would be also the best way to make them more able to protect themselves against any kind of outside interference," said Stoltenberg.

Jens Stoltenberg also mentioned that "Montenegro shows how much Euro-Atlantic integration can achieve and we welcome that 15 Allies have already ratified Montenegro’s accession to NATO."

According to him, this is also an area where they work together with the European Union in addressing these issues [outside interference - Editor's note] in the Western Balkans.