NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has sought a NATO-Russia Council (NRC) meeting next month to address the developments in Ukraine. Stoltenberg said Sunday that he has contacted Moscow to ensure they will be in attendance for the meeting on Jan. 12. NATO announced earlier this month that the NATO Military Council would meet in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan. 12–13, 2022. “The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has decided to convene a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on 12 January 2022 in his capacity as the Chair of the NATO-Russia Council. We are in contact with Russia as regards the meeting,” the alliance’s press service told Russian News Agency TASS on Sunday. “As the North Atlantic Council made clear in its December 16 statement on the situation in and around Ukraine, any dialogue with Russia would have to proceed on the basis of reciprocity, address NATO’s concerns about Russia’s actions, be based on the core principles and foundational …