Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration — Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. Archival photo MOSCOW, January 13 Russia is determined to continue the dialogue with the United States, the Russian Federation has never had a deficit of political will to dialogue, but a process is not needed for the sake of a process, a concrete result is needed, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov told reporters. On the contrary, we have repeatedly encountered the reluctance of our counterparties to conduct these negotiations. And I have no doubt that there will be no shortage of political will to continue negotiations, but with one understanding: there can be no process on these fundamental issues for the sake of process, there must be a concrete result, a concrete answer, «- said Peskov, answering the question whether Putin sees any sense in continuing negotiations with the United States, whether it is planned that the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation will personally follow them. 
The US mission announced NATO's readiness for dialogue and diplomacy. and Russia-NATO. The meeting followed up on talks on security guarantees between Russia and the United States, which took place on January 9-10 in Geneva, and at the end of 2021 Russia published draft agreements with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, is demanding legal guarantees from Western partners against further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from the creation of military bases in post-Soviet countries. US Senators from the ruling Democratic Party yesterday presented a bill proposing the introduction of painful sanctions against key industries. of the Russian economy, the national debt and top officials of the state in the event of an escalation of the situation around Ukraine. 
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