Moscow-Sana
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko ruled out that the statements issued by NATO would affect the Russian position regarding security guarantees in Brussels.
Grushko, who heads the Russian delegation to the talks of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels next Tuesday, said that the statements issued by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg after the extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of the alliance countries "do not carry anything new and will not affect in any way Russia's decision on negotiating guarantees." security in Brussels.
For his part, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov considered that the statements issued by Washington as well as NATO, prior to the start of talks with them, provoke resentment.
Ryabkov said that his country's expectations regarding the Russian-US talks are realistic and Moscow is not optimistic after hearing recent Washington and Brussels statements.
Russia and NATO are scheduled to hold talks on January 12 in Brussels, in addition to the Russian-American talks on the issue of security guarantees and strategic security in Geneva tomorrow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry distributed on the seventeenth of last month two draft documents on Russia's legal security guarantees requested from the United States and NATO on their role in Europe.
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