Before the Russia-NATO Council meeting in BrusselsMOSCOW, Jan 13 Russian Ambassador in London Andrey Kelin expressed the hope that reason will still prevail on the subject of security negotiations in the West. «To be honest, I remain optimistic. Optimistic that my colleagues, many of whom already now belong to another generation, to a new generation who have forgotten the fundamental foundations of European security, that sooner or later we will have to return to the foundations that were laid by the diplomats of the previous generation,» Kelin said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel. A meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held in Brussels on Wednesday . 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 were held 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 of refusing further expansion of NATO to the East, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. .jpg» />»Without Russia, this is doomed to fail.» How did negotiations with NATO end?