Foreign Ministry: Russia handed over to the United States a draft bilateral agreement on security guarantees for Russia and NATO
The Russian Foreign Ministry has developed a draft bilateral treaty on security guarantees and an agreement on security measures for Russia and NATO countries. This is stated in the message of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russia has prepared a draft security guarantee treaty and has already handed over the documents to the American side, hoping that Washington will begin negotiations with Moscow in the near future. The Foreign Ministry explained that during the transfer of documents, the Americans received from the Russian side all the necessary explanations regarding the Russian approach, and all the arguments were presented.
The Russian side noted several conditions that must be signed, all of which are included in the draft. So, among the conditions - the exclusion of NATO expansion and Ukraine's joining the alliance; the exclusion of the deployment of additional military and weapons outside the countries in which they were in May 1997; abandon any NATO military activities in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia, Central Asia; do not deploy medium and shorter-range missiles where they can hit the territory of the other side, etc.
In the draft treaty on guarantees, the United States and Russia undertake not to use the territory of third countries to attack each other; the parties should maintain dialogue and interact to prevent hazardous activities in the air and at sea; nuclear weapon can be deployed only on its own territory, and already deployed in other countries is returned, etc.
There are 9 points in the draft agreement on security measures between Russia and NATO countries, and 8 points in the agreement on security guarantees between the US and Russia. The full texts of both documents are available on the official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Russia has made its move, now we are waiting for reciprocal steps from Washington and Brussels. It is clear that there will be no quick signing of documents, and bargaining will begin for each clause of the agreement, but this is already in the process of negotiations. The main thing is that they start.
By the way, Kiev has already reacted to Russia's demand not to take Ukraine into NATO. Some Ukrainian media have already called the project a "brazen ultimatum" to Europe.
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