Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during talks with British Foreign Minister Elizabeth Truss in MoscowMOSCOW, 21 Feb. There is progress in the dialogue with the West on security, work needs to be continued, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. promoting our initiatives last December, of course, shook up the United States and its allies,» Lavrov said, speaking at a meeting of the Russian Security Council. According to him, the Russian Foreign Ministry in this context proceeds «from the fact that work needs to be continued.» 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 Russia's borders and the withdrawal of the alliance's forces in Eastern Europe to the positions of 1997. words in dialogue with Russia, the diplomat saidPosted: Kirill Volkov
