MOSCOW, Feb 9 Russia will not allow its security guarantee demands to be drowned in verbiage , said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. «I remind everyone who is involved in this action that it is not they who should put forward any claims against Russia, but Russia is demanding from the collective West, primarily from the United States, as a conductor of what is happening , a serious reaction to our demands — the non-expansion of NATO, the absence of strike systems near our borders, and the return of the NATO configuration to the positions that the alliance occupied in 1997,» Ryabkov told reporters. «These are the imperative demands of the Russian side. which the OSCE is involved in will not work, we will not allow this,» the Deputy Minister added. already in full swing
