MOSCOW, February 10 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a meeting with the British Foreign Minister Liz Truss, who is ready to discuss the implementation of Russian initiatives. «Of course, our countries, as permanent members of the UN Security Council, allies in World War II, which resulted in the formation of a modern security architecture, bear a special responsibility for curbing negative trends in international relations, reaching mutually respectful dialogue, to find solutions that will ensure the interests of all states without exception,» Lavrov said before the start of negotiations with Truss. «This is especially important now for the Euro-Atlantic region. We will be ready to discuss with you issues related to the implementation of well-known Russian initiatives» — added the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. On Thursday, negotiations between the foreign ministers of Russia and Great Britain are taking place in Moscow. As noted in the British embassy, Truss arrived in the Russian capital for talks with Lavrov on Ukraine. 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. Later, the US and NATO sent to Moscow written responses to Russia's proposals for security guarantees.
