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The United States and NATO are ready to meet again with the Russian side to continue the dialogue, the State Department said in a statement following telephone conversations between Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
Blinken and Stoltenberg discussed “the next steps after the meeting of the Russia-NATO Council”, which took place on January 12. The State Department statement emphasizes that Washington and its allies in the North Atlantic Alliance are committed to a diplomatic way of resolving the situation. The parties called on Russia to “immediately take measures to de-escalate the ongoing aggression against Ukraine.”
From January 10 to 13, three rounds of talks between Russia and the United States, NATO and the OSCE took place on Moscow’s proposed security guarantees. The consultations ended without concrete results, the Russian side assessed them as unsuccessful.
In December, the Foreign Ministry sent draft strategic security treaties to the US and NATO. In particular, Moscow proposed that the alliance refuse to expand to the east and include Ukraine in its composition, as well as to place military bases on the territory of the countries of the former USSR.
Source: Rosbalt
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