The Kremlin wants guarantees from NATO that the Alliance will not expand to the east and that cooperation with Ukraine and Georgia will end.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has scheduled a special meeting of Allied Ambassadors with Russian officials for next week amid a buildup of Russian troops. The meeting of the NATO-Russia Council will take place on 12 January. The key topic of discussion will be the so-called draft “security guarantee” treaty.
This was announced on January 4 by a NATO representative, writes Reuters.
As the newspaper writes, the NATO secretary general “deeply concerned about the military buildup of Russia along the border with Ukraine “and it is noted that the North Atlantic alliance has been seeking a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council for several months, but the Kremlin did not want to hold negotiations.
Council meeting, the format used for dialogue with 2002, to be held in Brussels on January 12th. Prior to that, US and Russian officials will hold security talks on January 10th in Geneva.
Notably, January 10, 2022 United States of America and Russian The Federation will hold talks on arms control and the situation in Ukraine. The next day, January 11, talks between representatives of Russia and the OSCE will take place.
Let us remind you that the Russian Foreign Ministry published the so-called draft agreement between Moscow and Washington on “security guarantees”, where there are several points directly related to Ukraine and its integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures. Moscow demands legal guarantees from the United States that NATO will abandon its intention to admit Ukraine.
