Representatives american and russian will take part, on January 10, in discussions on the military activities of their respective countries and on the tensions related to theUkraine. Another meeting should take place on Wednesday January 12, 2022 between Russia and NATO, before broader discussions, the next day, between Russian and American representatives and those of several countries. Europeans.
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Pressures on both sides
The bilateral talks on Monday January 10 will be held as part of the strategic security dialogue launched by Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutin at their Geneva summit last June. Although this format is mainly devoted to strategic issues, such as the renegotiation of nuclear arms control treaties, discussions will also concern the tense situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border.
But it is during the meeting on Wednesday January 12 that Ukraine will be specifically on the menu. In a document of Friday, December 17, Russia demanded a commitment from the Atlantic Alliance not to expand into the territories of the former USSR, in particular to Ukraine; it also calls for the end of Western military activities near the Russian borders (in particular in the Black Sea).
Joe Biden and Vladimir Poutin will talk to each other
L’Otan has already described some of these Russian demands asunacceptable
, while the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov has already ruled out any concession
on its requirements. Tensions also affect Moscow’s new role in Africa and the hardening of Russian domestic policy, where any democratic inclination is inevitably repressed.
US President Joe Biden and Russian Vladimir Putin are due to speak to each other this Thursday, December 30 by phone. Unless a whole new tone emerges, at this point observers hardly expect the January meetings to provide solutions to the differences between the two camps. At most, they risk leading to a finding of incomprehension and mutual intransigence.
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