US Department of State Representative Ned PriceWASHINGTON, Jan 25Russia will not be surprised by the US response to security guarantee proposals, State Department spokesman Ned Price told a briefing. «There will be no surprises <…> for the Russians,» he told reporters. Western allies have told Russia in which areas progress is possible and which initiatives are unacceptable to them. The second category includes, in particular, the demand to refrain from NATO expansion to the east. The State Department representative added that the United States informed Ukraine about the content of the response document. />Biden did not rule out the imposition of sanctions against Putin during the escalation in UkraineNegotiations with the United States and NATO At the end of last year, Moscow handed over draft documents on security guarantees to Brussels and Washington. The Kremlin insists on ending the bloc's military cooperation with the post-Soviet countries, refusing to create bases on their territory, limiting the deployment of strike weapons near the Russian border, removing American nuclear weapons from Europe, and guaranteeing NATO's non-expansion to the east. In January, a series of consultations were held on this issue between Russia, the United States and the alliance: on January 9-10, the issue was discussed in Geneva at meetings with the American side, on January 12 at a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, and on January 13 at the OSCE site. Even before the start of negotiations, Washington called some points of the document unacceptable, Moscow noted that this was not an ultimatum, but it would not make unilateral concessions, especially under pressure. The West promised this week to give written answers to Russian proposals. As Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized, Moscow needs a specific answer to each article of the documents put forward — the further actions of the Russian side and the prospects for resuming the dialogue will depend on this. />January 12, 08:43InfographicDraft Security Assurance Agreement between Russia and NATOInfographicView
