It had been six months since Russians and Americans had really spoken to each other.
Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutine had seen each other in Geneva in June;
they chose to reconnect through a phone conversation for almost an hour - on December 30.
And everything unlocked.
On January 10, their delegates met in Geneva, then on January 12 in Brussels, at NATO headquarters, and on January 13 in Vienna, capital of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - where the Russians have their seat.
This is where the OSCE Secretary General, the German Helga Schmid, concluded her remarks with
“Let's stop the escalation!”.
collective defense
The central subject is Ukraine.
Independent since 1991, following a referendum organized during the dissolution of the USSR, and whose territorial integrity was guaranteed in 1994 by a so-called Budapest memorandum (at the end of which Ukraine returned its nuclear weapons to Moscow , in exchange for his freedom).
Signed by the British, Americans and Russians…
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