The Atlantic Alliance and Washington insist on their open door policy and reject in writing Moscow’s claims to prevent the accession of Ukraine and Georgia
The secretary general Jens Stoltenberg says they are at a “critical” moment and warns of the possibility of deploying the rapid reaction force in “a matter of days”
The government of Vladimir Putin you already have the written response from NATO and the United States to his demands not to incorporate Ukraine and Georgia into the transatlantic military organization and to withdraw the allied troops from the Eastern European countries that joined after 1997. Both the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, as the US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, have made it clear to Moscow that the doors of the transatlantic organization will remain “open & rdquor; and that there will be no “concessions” on a fundamental principle such as “the sovereign right of each country to choose its path & rdquor ;.
Despite this slam of the door to some of Moscow’s main demands to prevent the accession of countries from the former Soviet orbit such as Ukraine and Georgia, both Blinken from Washington and Stoltenberg from Brussels have once again offered dialogue and a “diplomatic path” It would be to look for solutions at the “critical” moment. for Euro-Atlantic security in which they find themselves, marked by the concentration of more than 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine and new deployments, in the form of Russian military exercises, in Belarus.
“We are seeing more troops not only in Ukraine and its surroundings, but also in Belarus, where Russia is deploying thousands of troops, hundreds of aircraft, S-400 air defense systems and many other highly advanced capabilities,” he warned at a press conference. press the Norwegian politician, for whom this movement in Moscow is an evident element that not only is there no de-escalation but more tension.
Hence the new warning to Putin. “Although we are working for a good solution and the de-escalation, we are also preparing for the worst & rdquor ;, he recalled giving the example of sending more ships and planes to the east flank, announced last Monday, and the possibility of deploying “in question & rdquor; of days the rapid reaction force of 5,000 soldiers that France is currently leading to protect the allies. “To deploy it we need a decision from the Atlantic Council & rdquor; but “we have plans that can be activated in a very short period of time & rdquor ;, he warned.
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Despite this notice, the leader of the Atlantic Alliance has insisted that he “firmly” believes & rdquor; that the “tensions and disagreements” must be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy, not threats or force, and that there is “room for maneuver & rdquor; to enhance cooperation on issues of mutual interest such as arms control, including nuclear weapons and short-range missiles, risk reduction to prevent military incidents at sea or in the air wave transparency on military exercises. Issues, he said, that will also serve to increase security on the continent.
The response, which has not been made public, also includes the offer to reopen the respective offices of NATO in Moscow and of Russia at the headquarters of the Atlantic Alliance, because keeping them closed “complicates dialogue & rdquor ;, as well as resuming the NATO-Russia Council meetings to address all these issues in detail with the aim of avoiding “a new armed conflict in Europe that would be extremely serious. It is something that we have to avoid & rdquor ;, Stoltenberg insisted that he considers that there is still a high risk.