Lavrov spoke about the response of the United States on security guarantees

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. File photoMOSCOW, Feb. 17 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow will send its response to Washington on security proposals in paper and electronic form today. «Both in paper and electronic form,» — the minister said at a press conference in MoscowLavrov said when Russia will publish the US response on safeguardsAnswering the question when they will become public, he added : «Almost in a few hours, I think, after we send it to the Americans, we plan to do it today.» 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 Russia's borders and the withdrawal of alliance forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. At the end of January, the US 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 the US and NATO responses on security guarantees has been 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. Russia's response on security