Negotiations with the United States and NATO so far have been unsuccessful, Russia says

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The Kremlin has made such an assessment of the situation while the talks have been transferred to European Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (EDSO), the current President of which Poland Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau acknowledged that Europe had come as close to war as ever since the collapse of the USSR.

Russia has forced the West to sit down at a negotiating table, concentrating a troop of 100,000 men on Ukraine’s borders, raising fears of a new invasion of a neighboring country.

In December Moscow raised an ultimatum to the West demanding a suspension of further NATO enlargement to the east, as well as the dismantling of the Alliance’s infrastructure in the so-called new member states, restoring the situation that existed on 27 May 1997, ie before the first NATO enlargement.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin threatened that if Moscow did not receive the “security guarantees” he requested, he would have to take “military technical measures”.

ASV and other NATO members have stated that these demands are unacceptable and not even negotiable, but have shown readiness to talk about arms control, missile deployment and confidence-building measures.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that so far the talks have yielded some “positive nuances”, but that is not enough.

“Negotiations have been initiated [no mūsu puses]to get specific answers to specific fundamental questions. Disagreements have been registered on these fundamental issues, “Peskov said.

He has also criticized the US bill on sanctions against Russian civilian and military officials, including Putin in the attack on Ukraine by Senators representing Democrats.

Pekov has pointed out that such sanctions are tantamount to severing a relationship.

Meanwhile, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, who led talks with the United States in Geneva on Monday, said that Moscow saw no point in holding another round of talks with the West on so-called “security guarantees” in the coming days.

“I don’t see the point in sitting down for days to come [pie sarunu galda]Ryabkov told Russia, adding that on all key issues about halting NATO ‘s enlargement to remove “allies” from Eastern Europe in the United States, its allies were effectively saying “no” to Moscow.

He blamed the West for “lack of flexibility” on all “important issues.”

Ryabkov also said that if Moscow did not receive the desired “security guarantees”, the deployment of Russian troops in Cuba and Venezuela was not ruled out.

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