MOSCOW, January 27 - RIA Novosti. The content of the US response on security guarantees allows us to count on a serious conversation, but on secondary topics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
The United States and NATO on Wednesday gave Russia answers to proposals on security guarantees. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if the United States is asked not to publish its response to Russian security proposals, Moscow will not do so. At the same time, the minister added that the essence of Washington's reaction to Russian proposals, of course, deserves to be informed about it by the public in Russia and in other countries. At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from Western partners legal guarantees against further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from the creation of military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons at the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997.
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| Draft agreement on security guarantees between Russia and the United States. |
| Source: RIA Novosti |
