Russian Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov. File photoMOSCOW, Feb. 15 Russia's Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said that he could not make public the answer of the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell to the letter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, but, in general, it was «unsatisfactory». Earlier, Borrell said that he had given the Russian side a response on behalf of all EU countries to a letter on security issues sent by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to individual EU countries. /> Chizhov noted the role of diplomacy in defending Russian interests «They (the EU countries) were too timid to answer on behalf of their national states,» Chizhov said in an interview with the Guardian newspaper. , which will work for all parties. On January 26, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry sent a message to his colleagues in NATO and the EU countries, Switzerland, in total — 37 addressees. They contain a request to explain how these states intend in practice to fulfill their commitments taken within the OSCE at the highest level on the indivisibility of security, not strengthening their security to the detriment of others, and to state why they do not intend to do this.
The Foreign Ministry spoke about the response of the US and NATO on security guarantees
