Russia-NATO Council meeting in BrusselsMOSCOW, Jan 19Projects on security guarantees will have to be discussed with the United States and NATO, and not with Europe, in Europe no one spoke either for or against, said the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control Konstantin Gavrilov. no one made specific statements on the draft treaty, most likely they will have to be discussed in a format with the Americans and with NATO… Of course, no one spoke out against, but no one spoke out for anyone either,» Gavrilov said on the air of the Rossiya TV channel 24″.
Ryabkov told how Russia will fight NATO expansionAccording to him, the main conversation will be between Russia and the United States, everyone else will listen to Washington. «The main conversation will be between Russia and the United States, all other participating states of both the OSCE and NATO , it seems to me, they will take the recommendations of the Americans, and the Americans will take into account our wishes,» Gavrilov added. NATO, the Prime Minister of Estonia said At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a 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 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 background of the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine.
