Moscow. February 8. INTERFAX - Moscow will continue to seek from NATO and the United States a response to the key provisions of its initiative on security guarantees, there are things in the responses from Washington and Brussels that can be discussed, but they are of a secondary nature, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
"We will now prepare a response to the paper we received from Brussels and Washington, we will send it to Washington and Brussels," he said at a press conference following talks with French President Emmanuel Macron.
According to Putin, "there really are things that can be discussed, true, they are of a secondary nature, but nevertheless."
"We will, of course, seek answers to key questions," the Russian president stressed.
"I will not open every article, but on all key issues: NATO non-proliferation, the non-deployment of strike systems near our borders, the return of NATO infrastructure to 1997," there is not just no position on any of these points, and even the answer is "no" or "yes". It seems that we didn't even raise these questions. They were simply bypassed," he continued.
"We see political cliches and proposals on some minor issues there. I don't think that our dialogue is over," Putin said.
He also called the unwillingness of the United States and NATO to make public their responses to Russian proposals strange.
"If we have sent openly (proposals - IF), then what should we hide from the public of our countries, what they have answered us," the Russian president wondered.
