Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry PeskovWASHINGTON, Jan 16 Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with the American television channel CNN, said that there is «some understanding» in Russia's relations with the United States and NATO, but in general the parties are on «completely different tracks», which, according to him, causes concern. «Between us there is some understanding,» Peskov said, quoted by the Bloomberg agency. «But in general, in principle, now we can say that we are on different tracks, on completely different tracks, and this is not good, this causes concern,» he said. press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation in the light of this week's talks. On January 10, Russia and the United States held a new round of dialogue on strategic stability in Geneva. It was followed by a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels. It was followed on Thursday, January 13, by consultations at the Vienna site of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The main focus of these discussions was the security proposals that the Russian side presented to the US and NATO at the end of last year amid the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the US and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees. Moscow, in particular, demands from Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the East, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Russian Federation was preparing for any development of events and while waiting for a response from the US and NATO on security guarantees. According to him, the answers must be in writing.
