Ryabkov said that Russia will not make concessions on security guarantees – RBK

Russia will not succumb to US pressure and will not make concessions on strategic security treaties. This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Ryabkov in an interview. “RIA News”…

According to him, “there is a high probability” that Russia will face “the reluctance of our colleagues from the US and NATO to really perceive what we need.” “But we will not make any concessions under suppression and in the regime of threats that are constantly being formulated against us by Western participants in upcoming contacts,” Ryabkov said. To make concessions on security issues is to act against one’s own interests, the diplomat said.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs handed over to the United States and NATO in mid-December 2021, and then published draft strategic security treaties. Moscow proposed to rule out the expansion of NATO to the east, in particular, not to include Ukraine in the alliance members. The document also included proposals to ban the deployment of military bases on the territory of the former USSR and the deployment of nuclear weapons outside the national territory.

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