Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in MoscowMOSCOW, Feb 16The schedule for further steps in the framework of the dialogue with the United States and NATO on security assurances will be developed after Russia sends to Washington and Brussels its response to the written proposals received earlier from them, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. «An answer has been prepared, it is in the final phase on those proposals that were sent by the United States and NATO in response to Russian initiatives. All this is in the final phase of preparation and will be transferred to partners. After that, a schedule of further steps will be developed,» Zakharova said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. 
Moscow is ready for an open dialogue on security guarantees, the Foreign Ministry said at the end of January, the United States and NATO sent to Moscow written responses to Russia's proposals on security guarantees. On Monday, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia's reaction to US responses and NATO on Security Assurances is formulated, it takes 10 pages. According to him, the President approved the document in principle, and in the near future it will be handed over to the US and NATO. Lavrov assured that the Russian side would publish the document after it was handed over to Western capitals. 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 the borders of Russia and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. their analysts
