Russian Defense Minister Sergei ShoiguLONDON, Jan 17 British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that invited Russian colleague Sergei Shoigu to visit London in the next few weeks. that he does not know whether Shoigu will accept his invitation. «I made an invitation and I hope that he will accept it,» the head of the British Ministry of Defense said. According to him, the Russia-NATO Council showed that the alliance is ready for dialogue with the Russian Federation on a wide range of issues in the interests of Euro-Atlantic security. Russia and the United States January 10 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 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 bloc of Ukraine and from establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. .jpg» />NATO Secretary General discussed with the British Prime Minister the continuation of the dialogue with Russia
