March 28, 2024

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Russia demands immediate security guarantees from the West

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear this week that immediate legal security guarantees should be provided by the West, not the Kremlin, when explaining proposals to the United States and NATO.

And in recent days, the Russian president has spoken by phone on this and other issues with French President Emmanuel Macron. German Federal Chancellor Olaf Schulz; Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel; And a week earlier with the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, and with the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

In every conversation with his counterparts and at his annual press conference, Putin called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to halt its advance to the east and expressed concern about the situation in Ukraine, which has also become a potential threat to your country. .

The head of state, during a correspondence with journalists on Thursday, stressed that Moscow hinted “loudly and clearly” that such a situation was unacceptable and that his country’s actions would not depend on the course of negotiations with Washington and NATO, but on the course of negotiations on Russia. Safety.

Have we put missiles along the US border? No, it’s the United States with its missiles that have reached our house, and they are at your doorstep.”

The Russian president questioned whether it was an excessive and rare demand that the West not place more missile systems near Russia, wondering how the United States would react if Moscow placed its missiles on the borders of Mexico or Canada.

It is NATO countries that should “immediately, now” provide security guarantees to Russia and not vice versa, he said, in response to a question about guarantees that Moscow could give that it would not attack Ukraine or any other sovereign country.

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According to Putin, it is not the Russian side that creates threats to other countries. Have we reached the US border or the UK border? They have arrived here. And now they say that Ukraine will be in NATO. Then he made it clear that the systems would be placed there as well.”

For the president, Russia was “blatantly deceived” when NATO asserted in the 1990s that it would not grow eastward.

He warned that since then there have been five waves of NATO expansion, and denounced that their weapons systems are now deployed in Romania and Poland, while talking about their status in Ukraine.

Putin reiterated that his country formulated constructively and quickly and sent its proposals on security guarantees to Washington and the Euro-Atlantic military bloc.

He also noted that Moscow is ready to discuss these documents on the OSCE platform.

He expressed that his country sees so far a positive response from the United States to its proposals regarding legal security guarantees.

Our American partners tell us they are ready to start this discussion, these negotiations, at the beginning of the year in Geneva. Representatives from both parties were appointed. I hope that the situation will develop in this direction,” stressed the Russian president.