The Russian Foreign Minister has assured that the US has promised him that next week Moscow will receive the written answers it demands to its proposals related to the freezing of NATO’s expansion towards Eastern Europe.
The meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and its American counterpart, Antony Blink, whose purpose was to find formulas to reduce political and military tensions around Ukraine, ended after an hour and a half.
After the meeting, Sergey Lavrov assured that the United States had defended the freedom of countries to choose whether or not they wish to join NATO, although Blinken promised that next week Moscow would receive the written answers it is demanding for its proposals related to the freezing of NATO’s expansion into Eastern Europe.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Russia demands the withdrawal of foreign forces and their weapons from Bulgaria and Romania, a point included in the security guarantees that Moscow requires to prevent the expansion of NATO and the placement of offensive weapons near its borders, said today
“It is about the withdrawal of foreign forces, war equipment, weapons (…) with the aim of returning to the state that existed in 1997 in the countries that were not members of NATO at that time. Among them are Bulgaria and Romania “said the diplomatic entity.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian proposals “were formulated in a totally precise way that does not admit any type of double interpretation.”
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