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Translating this article, it turns out that if Russia decided to attack NATO’s eastern flank, help could only come with Russia’s own permission.
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Russia’s further demands also limit the conduct of military exercises at Russia’s borders and the defense of Ukraine and other countries. Here is what Article 7 provides, for example:
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“Members participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization shall renounce all military activities on the territory of Ukraine and on the other countries of Eastern Europe, the Transcaucasus and Central Asia.”
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov did not hide in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov, a Kremlin propagandist, a year ago, that Russia first wants to discuss these guarantees with the United States, but does not want to go into long chatter. Lavrov called the countries on the Russian border territories “left homeless” after the collapse of the Soviet Union. “It simply came to our notice then [NATO] now, as Putin said, it is on the doorstep of our house, it cannot leave us indifferent, “Lavrov said.
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Russia’s wish list comes at a time when it continues to pull military units around Ukraine and Crimea. These demands, which demand almost nothing from Russia itself, have been called unacceptable and even absurd by Western political, diplomatic and expert circles.
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“Russia is trying to restore or think somewhere in the categories of the 19th century: areas of interest in which the great powers can agree among themselves, also on third countries. This is an unacceptable thing,” says Andris Sprūds, director of the Latvian Foreign Policy Institute and RSU professor.
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“This list of demands is completely unacceptable because it undermines the European security architecture, which has brought prosperity, democracy and stability to the region since 1991. Accepting any of Russia’s demands would undermine the system,” said Katarzina Pisarska, director of the Warsaw Security Forum.
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In turn, the Minister of Defense of Latvia Artis Pabriks (A / P) calls these Russian demands an ultimatum, on which no further negotiations can be built: ” “
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Pabriks has not heard support for these Russian demands from any NATO or European Union country. However, it is not clear exactly how the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to restart relations with Russia. As for the United States, Latvian officials have no doubt that we will not be judged in absentia.
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In an interview with Latvijas Radio a week ago, President Egils Levits said, referring to the presidents of several countries repeatedly repeated by US President Joe Biden that “we will not have any dialogue about you without you”.
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“We are constantly receiving strong assurances through diplomatic channels that nothing will be done without us and at our expense, and here we have strong confidence in our allies in Washington,” says Pabriks.
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The US ambassador to NATO on Friday denied that the US would make a proposal to reduce the number of troops in Eastern Europe before talks with Russia on easing tensions at Ukraine’s borders. At the same time, American foreign policy has tended to be less involved in distant global games in recent years. And although the guarantees required by Russia will not be signed by anyone, to some extent they are already being fulfilled, according to a foreign policy expert.
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