The Russian Foreign Ministry has published the 11 pages that make up the letter sent to the US containing Moscow’s responses to American security proposals. Russia says it is “ready for dialogue” with the West but stresses that “the red lines and strategic interests” on the security front it had placed “have been ignored”: “This is unacceptable”, is the position of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Moscow, which notes that “no constructive answers have come from the US and NATO” to his needs.
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Moscow offers Washington cooperation to achieve “a new security equation”. The document lists the key issues to which, according to Moscow, the United States has not given a constructive response: the request not to further expand NATO, the withdrawal of the ‘Bucharest formula’, according to which “Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members “and the request not to create military bases on the territory of States formerly part of the USSR and not members of the Alliance, including the use of their infrastructures for the conduct of any military activity, as well as the return of NATO military capabilities and infrastructures to the status of 1997, when the constitutive act of Russia-NATO relations was signed.
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“These provisions are of fundamental importance for the Russian Federation”, recalls the document. “The nature of the package of Russian proposals was ignored”, Moscow accuses, “from which ‘convenient’ arguments were deliberately extrapolated, which, in turn, were ‘distorted’ to create advantages for the United States and its allies. “, reads the Russian replies.
“This approach, as well as the rhetoric of US officials, reinforces legitimate doubts that Washington is truly committed to resolving the European security situation”, denounces Moscow, admonishing that “in the absence of the willingness on the American side to agree on legally binding guarantees of our security, Russia will be forced to respond, including by implementing technical-military measures “.