NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a press conference after the Russia-NATO Council meeting in BrusselsBRUSSELS, 16 Feb. NATO is waiting for Russia's response to its security proposals and expresses its readiness to continue the dialogue, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said before the start of a two-day meeting of the bloc's defense ministers. «What NATO is constantly calling for. We are ready for dialogue. We sent our proposals on security to Russia, and we are waiting for a response to them and express our readiness and openness for dialogue,» he said. At the end of 2021, Russia published draft agreements with the United States and agreements with NATO on security assurances. 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. At the end of January, the US and NATO sent to Moscow written responses to Russia's proposals on security guarantees. On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia's reaction to the US and NATO responses to Russia's security proposals would be published. 10:05InfographicNATO's response to Russia's proposals on security guaranteesInfographicView
