In negotiations on security, Russia may face the reluctance of its Western colleagues to “really perceive” the requirements, namely, legal guarantees of non-expansion, as well as “the elimination of everything that the alliance created, driven by anti-Russian phobias and all sorts of false ideas about what the essence of the Russian policies for the period since 1997 “. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
“But we, of course, under suppression and in the regime of threats that are constantly formulated against us by Western participants in upcoming contacts, will not make any concessions,” he said.
Russia and the United States will hold consultations in Geneva on January 9-10 on Moscow’s proposals on security guarantees, followed by a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Brussels, and consultations at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Vienna.
Earlier, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, advised NATO to take urgent measures to ensure security, since the continuation by the West of its policy of creating military threats to Russia would cause a response in the form of creating “vulnerabilities” for it.
Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the topic of security guarantees from NATO is for Russia “a matter of life and death.” Moreover, the head of the Russian state, Vladimir Putin, said that if the United States and NATO refused to give security guarantees to Russia, Moscow’s response could be very different.
Source: Rosbalt
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