NATO headquarters in BrusselsBERLIN Feb 9The leaders of Germany, France and Poland, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Andrzej Duda, said that NATO needs to regularly reassess its strategy towards Russia in order to adjust it if the security situation deteriorates, according to a joint statement following the Weimar Triangle summit in Berlin. «France, Poland and Germany stand ready to participate constructively in meaningful and result-oriented negotiations on security issues of mutual interest (with Russia). The three countries will continue to consult closely with EU partners and NATO allies to guarantee peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic space In line with the alliance's dual approach, the heads of state and government agree that the alliance should regularly review its defense and deterrence strategies with a willingness to adjust them to further deterioration of the security situation, including through NATO's Enhanced advanced e presence,» the document says. At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees, and on January 26, the United States and NATO sent written responses to these proposals to Moscow. A draft treaty between Russia and the United States on guarantees security implies Washington's refusal to further expand NATO to the east and admit the former Soviet republics into the alliance, as well as to establish military bases on the territory of post-Soviet countries that are not members of NATO. The parties also undertake not to conduct military exercises with the development of scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons; not to deploy medium- and shorter-range missiles within range of each other; not to deploy nuclear weapons abroad and to return those already deployed, as well as to eliminate the infrastructure for the deployment of nuclear weapons outside their territory; not to deploy weapons and forces in those areas where it will be perceived by the other side as a threat to national security; to refrain from flying heavy bombers in nuclear and non-nuclear equipment outside its own sky. In the draft agreement on security guarantees with NATO, Russia proposed to exclude further expansion of the alliance and the accession of Ukraine to it, to abandon military activities on the territory of Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Russia and NATO members, as of May 1997, should refuse to deploy forces and weapons on the territory of other European countries in addition to the forces that were there at that time. Moscow and NATO also commit not to deploy intermediate- and shorter-range missiles within range of each other; not create conditions that may be regarded as a threat by the other party; to confirm that they do not see each other as adversaries, as well as to create hotlines for emergency contacts.
