Sovereign states have the right to choose which alliances to join, said US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman at a meeting on security guarantees with a Russian delegation in Geneva. About it reported on the State Department website.
“The undersecretary of state stressed the commitment of the United States to international principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the freedom of sovereign nations to choose their own unions,” it said.
Sherman stressed that the United States will not discuss the security of Europe without European allies.
Ryabkov described the negotiations with the United States with the phrase “amazing, the conversation was difficult.”
Discussion of some issues has been postponed until the Russia-NATO meeting to be held in Brussels on January 12 and the OSCE Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on January 13.
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