Senator Alexei Pushkov MOSCOW, Jan 18 Senator Alexei Pushkov commented on the statement of French Foreign Minister Jean -Yves Le Drian on «three principles» in relation to Russia. As the head of the French Foreign Ministry said earlier following a conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Paris shares «three principles» with respect to Moscow: «deterrence, continued dialogue and strengthening transatlantic coordination.» «Three principles of policy towards Russia, put forward by the French Foreign Minister, are not new, do not correlate with each other and doom France to a passive role,» Pushkov said in his Telegram channel. NATO on Security Assurances. 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 creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. On January 10, Russia and the United States held a new round of dialogue on strategic stability in Geneva. It was followed by a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels. It was followed on Thursday, January 13, by consultations at the Vienna site of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The main focus of these discussions was the security proposals that the Russian side presented to the US and NATO at the end of last year against the backdrop of the escalating crisis in Ukraine. doesn't think security architecture revision is a crazy idea
