NATO-Russia talks at a dead end: "Real risk of war in Europe"
Reuters
13/01/2022
Thursday, 13 January 2022, 08:46 Updated: 09:17
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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO-Russia Summit in Brussels, Belgium, January 12, 2022 (Photo: Reuters)
Representatives of NATO and Russia held talks in Brussels yesterday in an attempt to neutralize the threat of war in Eastern Europe, but the gap between their positions was more pronounced after four hours of discussions on the crisis that began following the concentration of large Russian forces near Ukraine. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, after on Monday, the Deputy Foreign Ministers of the United States and Russia met in
Geneva
without making any real progress in contacts.
To avoid the risk of war in Europe, however, he flatly rejected its most basic demand - to ensure that Ukraine would never join the Alliance. "There is a real danger of a new armed conflict in Europe," the secretary general said at a news conference.
"There are significant gaps between NATO allies and Russia.
It will not be easy to bridge them. "
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Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said the situation was "very dangerous".
He noted that Moscow was ready to discuss the deployment of weapons and controls, but would not allow it to choose between its security proposals.
At a lengthy press conference, Grushko added that Russia could not take seriously NATO's claim that it was a non-threatening defensive alliance, and promised a symmetrical response to any attempt to block or threaten Moscow
. We will forever change the course of events, which is very dangerous, "he warned
. Because NATO's' disregard for Russia's security proposals poses a danger to "incidents and conflicts."
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