Lavrov urged to implement the principle of indivisibility of security in its entirety

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Archive photoMOSCOW, Feb 17The principle of indivisibility of security must be implemented in its entirety, backed up by legal obligations, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. «And the principle of indivisibility of security must be put into practice on a legally binding basis, in in all its completeness and interconnection, in the form in which it was approved at the highest level within the OSCE,» Lavrov said at a press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio.The United States and NATO freely interpret the principles of the indivisibility of security, Putin said. «We will nevertheless politely, but persistently, ask our Western colleagues that each of them respond in a national capacity and explain what they now understand as a result of the documents signed then, which no one has canceled, and how do they intend to implement them,» Lavrov said at a press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. At the end of January, the United States and NATO sent written responses to Russia's proposals on security guarantees to Moscow. On Monday, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Lavrov said that Russia's reaction to the responses of the US and NATO on security guarantees is formulated, it takes 10 pages. According to the minister, the president approved the document in principle, and it will be handed over to the United States and NATO in the near future. 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 the alliance's forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. indivisibility of security