Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in KievKYIV, Jan 27 Ukrainian authorities saw US and NATO response on security guarantees before it was handed over to Russia, Kiev has no objections regarding its content, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said. «We saw the written response from the United States before it was handed over to Russia. There are no objections from the Ukrainian side. Important that the US remains in close contact with Ukraine before and after all contacts with Russia. No decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine. The golden rule,» the minister wrote on Twitter. 1937fcf4ce87a76bfa4105cd2d1a5c51.jpg» />Russia will not rush to assess the US response on guarantees, Peskov 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 eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. The proposals also contain a clause on the non-deployment of NATO strike weapons near Russia's borders and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. On Wednesday, the US and NATO handed over to Russia responses to proposals for security guarantees. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that if the United States is asked not to publish its response to Russian security proposals, Moscow will not do so. At the same time, the minister added that the essence of Washington's reaction to the Russian proposals, of course, deserves that the public in Russia and in other countries be informed about this. jpg» />
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