In response to Washington's message, Russia confirms that the West's unwillingness to negotiate will force it to respond

Moscow-Sana

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed today that the US administration did not express a constructive position on Moscow's proposals regarding security guarantees.

The Russia Today website quoted the ministry as saying that it had delivered Moscow’s response to the United States’ message regarding the file of security guarantees to the American ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, who visited the ministry’s headquarters today to receive the document, explaining that the American response was not based on the basic components of the draft agreement prepared by the Russian side.

The ministry explained that the talk is about abandoning the continued expansion of NATO, withdrawing the so-called Bucharest formula, which says that Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO, and not establishing military bases in the territories of the countries that were formerly included in the Soviet Union.. These provisions are of fundamental importance to the Russian Federation. .

The ministry indicated that the response included a warning from Russia that the United States' unwillingness to negotiate the basic terms of security guarantees would prompt it to respond, including by taking measures of a military-technical nature, stressing that the escalating military activities of the United States and the West in the immediate vicinity of the Russian border provoke Particularly concerned at a time when our red lines and our fundamental interests in the field of security, as well as Russia's sovereign right to protect them, continue to be ignored.

The response document confirmed that the demands directed in the form of warnings to withdraw forces from certain areas inside Russian territory, accompanied by threats to tighten sanctions, are unacceptable and undermine the prospects for reaching real agreements, explaining that no Russian invasion of Ukraine is taking place, which the United States has been talking about with its allies at the official level since the fall Last year and no plans to launch it.. For this reason, the allegations about Russia's responsibility for the escalation can only be assessed as an attempt to exert pressure and remove Russia's proposal on security guarantees.

The document added: It is extremely important for de-escalation around Ukraine to implement a set of steps, namely, forcing the authorities in Kiev to implement the Minsk Agreement, stopping arms supplies to Ukraine, withdrawing all Western advisers and trainers from the country, giving NATO countries any joint military exercises with the Ukrainian armed forces, and withdrawing all weapons. Which was previously supplied to Kiev outside the territory of Ukraine.

The document pointed out that Russia is waiting from the West for concrete proposals on legal fixation for NATO to abandon its eastward expansion and return to the implementation of international obligations in the field of ensuring peace and security.

The document indicated that, above all, there is talk about creating a stable basis for the security structure in the form of an agreement that states that NATO will abandon any subsequent measures that harm Russia's security... and this matter remains an absolute and constant necessity for the Russian side, warning that in the absence of such circumstances A solid base will not be the coherent measures of arms control and military risk reduction

which guarantees self-restraint and predictability in military activities in singular directions that are fixed in the long term even if they can be reached.

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