Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned that Moscow would never agree to a number of conditions that the American side might try to put forward in negotiations on security guarantees.
“If a precondition on the American side is the requirement that we carry out certain measures on our own territory that Washington and other NATO capitals” like ” work, then it will not work, “Ryabkov said in an interview with International Affairs magazine.
According to him, such behavior by the United States will demonstrate that they do not have the political will to negotiate. Moscow will not allow making the negotiations a screen for further military development of the territory of Ukraine and other anti-Russian initiatives.
“This is exactly what prompted us to put forward our proposals. And in this situation, responsibility for further deterioration, and in such a situation it will probably become inevitable, it will simply become inevitable, and will fall on the American side and on the US allies,” Ryabkov said. …
As the diplomat emphasized, the Russian side wants to quickly formalize the agreements that are on paper, denounced in a treaty form.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry published draft agreements with the United States and agreements with NATO member states on mutual security guarantees. They call for an end to any eastward expansion of NATO and “not to deploy weapons and forces” where it “would be perceived by the other side as a threat to national security.”
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