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Sunday, 9 January 2022 (YJC)_ On the eve of the Geneva meeting between the representatives of Moscow and Washington on the issue of security guarantees, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Russia will not give in to US pressure.
A day after the Russia-US talks in Geneva, Switzerland, a senior Moscow diplomat said Moscow had no hope of holding talks.
Russia's Sputnik news agency reached out to Russia's deputy foreign minister on Monday (tomorrow) ahead of a meeting between senior representatives of Moscow and Washington in Sudis, asking for his opinion on the meeting.
At the beginning of this report it is stated:
Russia and the United States are scheduled to discuss strategic stability in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 10, followed by a NATO-Russia Council meeting in Brussels on January 12 and a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna on January 13. Be.
On the eve of the Moscow-Washington meeting in Geneva, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov announced that Russia would not give in to US pressure and would not make any concessions.
He told Sputnik that Moscow was "very disappointed" with signals from Washington and Brussels before the meeting about the security guarantees offered by Russia.
He clarified:
In short, they (these signals) reflect a lack of understanding of what we need. We need these: legal guarantees, legal guarantees that NATO will not expand any further, destroying everything the coalition has created since 1997 because of anti-Russian fears and all sorts of misconceptions about the nature of Russian politics.
Ryabkov lamented Washington's continued insistence on unilateral concessions from Moscow.
Russia is not optimistic about future talks.
According to the Russian diplomat, "the unilateral approach promoted by the United States and NATO can not be used as a basis for discussing security guarantees."
He stated that the main purpose of Moscow (meeting) in Geneva (with the American delegation) is to discuss the non-proliferation of NATO and the non-deployment of offensive weapons near the Russian border.
Ryabkov added:
Unfortunately, we hear all sorts of speculations about the fact that Russia has to do this or that, take this or that step. We have reacted to such statements many times at all levels, and (if that's the case) there is no basis for any agreement, let alone a constructive debate.
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