The Russian Foreign Ministry called negotiations with the United States productive, but is waiting for a direct answer
The Russian and US delegations held an “in-depth” and “quite productive” study of the issues in Geneva. At the same time, the issues of arms reduction were of a “secondary, if not peripheral, nature.”
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov stated this today at a meeting of the Valdai Club, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We need legal guarantees that NATO will not expand, guarantees that the Alliance will return to its 1997 levels, and a reliable solution to the issue of not deploying strike weapons along our borders. The rest depends on movement in these directions,” Ryabkov said.
At the same time, Russia has not yet received written comments on its proposals from the United States.
“I would like to hope that this will happen in the near future. As the Russian side has repeatedly emphasized, the issue is urgent, we are not ready to wait endlessly, we are not ready to plunge into the usual diplomatic and bureaucratic confusion regarding what formats are optimal for this. We need a direct and understandable answer, and in writing - in the form of an article-by-article analysis of the projects that we put on the table,” Ryabkov said.
He emphasized that “the unprecedented posing of questions is dictated by the unprecedented situation in which we find ourselves as a result of the destructive course of the United States and NATO allies towards the geopolitical development of the territory from which threats to Russia come.”
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