Russia will not succumb to the pressure of the United States and will not make concessions under strategic contracts. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov in an interview with RIA Novosti.
According to him, “high probability” that Russia will face “the reluctance of our colleagues from the USA and NATO really to perceive what we need.”
“But we are under the suppression and in the mode of threats, which are constantly formulated into our address by Western participants in the upcoming contacts, do not go for any concessions,” said Ryabkov. To make concessions in safety issues – to act against their interests, the Russian diplomat believes.
MFA in mid-December 2021 handed over the United States and NATO, and then published projects on strategic safety treaties. Moscow offered to exclude the expansion of NATO to the East, in particular, do not include Ukraine as members of the Alliance. The document also had proposals for prohibiting the placement of military bases on the territory of the former USSR and the placement of nuclear weapons outside the national territory, resembles RBC. The United States did not agree with the proposals of Russia, which concern NATO’s unusual, but reported readiness for negotiations, said the spokesman for the White House of Jen Psaki at the end of December. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the Alliance would not allow Russia to impose restrictions that would deprive individual states of the right to join NATO or not.