NATO Headquarters Building in Brussels VIENNA, Jan 13 NATO's expansion in Europe is key a blow to the European security system, this expansion should be blocked, said Russia's Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich. in legal form, «he said during a press conference following a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Russia's security proposals. Britain made promises not to expand NATO, Lavrov said Wednesday in Brussels was a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council. The meeting followed the talks on security guarantees between Russia and the United States, which took place on January 9-10 in Geneva. On Thursday, after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, consultations are taking place at the Vienna platform of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. At the end of 2021, Russia published a draft treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees against further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the Ukrainian bloc and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. 
