US President Joe Biden made a diplomatic concession to Russia, announcing preparations for a meeting to discuss Russia’s concerns about NATO expansion. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the British newspaper Financial Times.
According to the newspaper, Moscow wants NATO to commit itself to abandoning eastward expansion and refraining from contingents in countries bordering on Russia that could be used to attack it.
“But Biden’s mention of seeking a potential ‘compromise’ with Moscow in Eastern Europe will scare many Eastern European NATO members and US allies, who fear that (Russian President Vladimir – Rosbalt’s note) Putin will use the threat of military force to gain concessions on the US military presence in Europe, ”the article says.
Online talks between the presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, took place on December 7. The politicians talked for about two hours.
Earlier, Putin proposed starting substantive negotiations on achieving legal guarantees of NATO’s eastward expansion. According to the head of state, Russia intends to seek reliable and long-term security guarantees and in negotiations with the United States and its allies will “insist on the development of specific agreements that will exclude any NATO moves to the east.” He added that tensions on the western borders of Russia are growing, “it is enough to see how close the military infrastructure of the North Atlantic Alliance has moved to the Russian borders.”
Source: Rosbalt
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