Russia and US discuss Ukraine crisis: "Gaps are big"
Reuters
10/01/2022
Monday, 10 January 2022, 21:36 Updated: 22:00
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US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in talks in Geneva, January 10, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
Russia and the United States tonight (Monday) remained fortified in their positions regarding Ukraine and Europe after talks between their representatives in Geneva designed to prevent a conflict in the east of the continent. During the lengthy meeting between the deputy foreign ministers, Moscow reiterated demands that Washington stresses that it cannot accept, first and foremost in relation to Kiev's accession to NATO
. The United States and Russia have, in some ways, differing views on what to do, "said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in a conversation with reporters. Europe that joined it after 1997. "We emphasize that for us it is an absolute duty to make sure that Ukraine never, but will never become a member of NATO," he said.
"We do not trust the other side, so to speak. We need cast iron guarantees, watertight, bulletproof, legally binding. Not promises, no guarantees, but binding guarantees that Ukraine will never be a member of NATO.
It's a matter of Russia's national security. "
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said for her part that" we were determined to reject security proposals that are simply non-starter for the United States. " Of NATO, which has always been a central principle in the NATO Alliance.
We will not give up bilateral cooperation with sovereign states that want to work with the United States, nor will we make decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine, about Europe without Europe, or about NATO without NATO.
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Russia has concentrated many forces - about 100,000 troops - near the Ukrainian border in recent months, demanding that the US-led military alliance deny the annexation of the former Soviet republic or further expansion in Eastern Europe, an area where Moscow sees its backyard.
Washington and Kiev warn that Moscow may prepare for a new invasion of Ukraine, eight years after capturing the Crimean peninsula.
Russia denies having such plans and describes the concentration of forces in response to NATO and Ukraine's "aggressive behavior" seeking to join the alliance.
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