Grigory Karasin MOSCOW, Jan 27 The Russian side counts on the common sense of Western partners in resolving issues ensuring security, after the US response, difficult military-diplomatic work is ahead, Grigory Karasin, head of the international committee of the Federation Council, believes. Russia 24″.
The United States did not answer the question of NATO non-expansion, Lavrov said. USA in Geneva. «Now there is a difficult military-diplomatic work ahead,» the parliamentarian said. He stressed that Russia will seek clear, documented commitments from the West to renounce the expansion of NATO, the promotion of this military-political bloc to our borders and the deployment of alliance bases along the perimeter of the Russian Federation, as well as on a number of other issues.
The EU appreciated the US response to Russia's proposals»Our initiative gave the world a chance and, I hope, all the peoples of the Earth will be able to take advantage of this chance,» the parliamentarian said. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with the United States and agreements 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 the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997.
