KYIV. June 7 (Interfax) - NATO Parliamentary Assembly President Pierre Lellouche slammed a statement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday that the possible entry of Ukraine and Georgia to NATO would bring about a tremendous "geopolitical shift." Russia would then revise its policy, Lavrov warned. Lellouche told the Ukrainian service of the British Broadcasting Corporation that Lavrov's statement reflected a contradictory position. A NATO-Russia agreement of 1997 recognized the right of each European country to choose its allies and decide which organizations to join, Lellouche said. He said it was no novelty for the West that Russia is against NATO's eastward expansion. But it was unclear, he said, how Russia could seek to prevent Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO without resorting to Cold War methods. Lellouche argued that it would be impossible to build another empire within the borders of the former Soviet Union but that it was such an empire that would mark a geopolitical shift.