Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken meeting in StockholmMOSCOW, 18 Jan. The meeting of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Friday in Geneva is a positive sign — perhaps the American side wants to clarify a number of issues before responding to Moscow's proposals on security guarantees, the Director of the Research Foundation told RIA Novosti Yury Rogulev, a senior US State Department spokesman, said Blinken will meet with Lavrov in Geneva on Friday after his visits to Kiev and Berlin. jpg» />The expert said about the «strange» tone of NATO in negotiations with Russia «Russia is waiting for concrete answers (to its proposals on security guarantees — ed.). I think that the meeting may be partly related to this. Maybe Blinken wants to clarify something In principle, we see that diplomatic work has intensified on our side, on the foreign side. I think this is a positive sign,» Rogulev said. preparing a response to clarify things at the ministerial level. «Judging by the request and the active response to Russia's request, we are talking about important things,» the expert noted. in talks with the US Russia and the US held a new round of dialogue on strategic stability in Geneva on January 10. 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 amid the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the US 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 Ukrainian bloc and from establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries.
