NATO logo banners in front of the organization's headquarters in Brussels. File photoPARIS Feb 21MEP and chairman of the French far-right National Rally party during Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign, Jordan Bardella, said on BFMTV that Russia's demand not to expand NATO eastward is just. to its borders, legitimately,” Bardella said. He noted that in 1991, a “tacit agreement” was concluded between the United States and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on the non-expansion of NATO eastward to the borders of Russia. “This agreement was not respected, and the United States has since Since then, as they were then called the «gendarmes of the world,» those striving for expansion approached Russia in the logic of the Cold War. I believe that it is impossible to fight either with Russia or with the United States, but a balanced approach must be sought,» Le Pen's associate added. The role of France, according to the politician, is to achieve a de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine.Former CIA analyst: US must admit that they promised not to expand NATO Earlier, Spiegel reported that a 1991 document was found in the UK national archive, in which Western countries declared the unacceptability of NATO expansion to the east. The document, previously classified as «secret», was discovered by Boston University professor Joshua Shifrinson. It refers to the meeting of representatives of the foreign ministries of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, which took place in Bonn on March 6, 1991. The meeting discussed the security of Poland and other states of Eastern Europe. It followed from the document that the meeting participants agreed that the membership of Eastern European countries in NATO is “unacceptable,” the publication noted. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft treaties with the United States and agreements 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 the alliance's forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. that NATO broke its promise not to expand eastPosted by: Nikita Stoma
