“This time the US will not shrug it off”: analyst on the negotiations in Geneva
At the Russian-American security consultations starting in Geneva, Moscow will not make concessions unless the United States also does so.
The director of the Franklin Roosevelt Foundation for the Study of the United States at Moscow State University, Yuri Rogulev, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Given that the negotiations will be held behind closed doors, it is difficult to make forecasts. However, one of the goals of the Russian Federation is to move the deadlock. Previously, no proposals from the Russian side were simply considered by the West; they were ignored. Just remember the Russian Federation’s proposal to abandon the deployment of medium- and shorter-range missiles along the borders. NATO immediately dismissed it, and that was the end of it,” the expert told Izvestia.
According to him, Russia advocates that this meeting should not turn into a “long talking shop”, but that its results should be formalized in the form of specific agreements.
“Of course, the United States has already stated that it will stick to its favorite position: we will accept some things, we will not accept others. However, this time they will not be able to shrug it off. Russia will make concessions only when the other side does the same,” Rogulev concluded.
Let us recall that the Russian Foreign Ministry published draft documents proposed by the United States on security guarantees between NATO and Russia. Among other things, Moscow proposed that the United States exclude further expansion of NATO to the east and not accept post-Soviet countries into this bloc.
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