As is known, Russian leadership requests an end to the attacks on Ukraine, among other things, a guarantee that the country will not enter NATO. In principle, the eastern expansion of the military alliance must also be withdrawn, the emphasis becomes. Vice -Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Rjabkow now requires “practical steps in the US”.
These must “focus on the causes of the basic contradictions between us in the field of safety,” said the vice minister responsible for strategic armor. “In these reasons, NATO expansion comes first. Without the solution for this fundamental and acute problem for us, it is simply impossible to resolve the current conflict in the Euro-Atlantic area.”
Russian leadership represents the expansion of the Western Alliance to the East and a possible recording of Ukraine as the reason for their attack war. Rjabkow referred to a memorandum in December 2021, two months before the attack on Ukraine. Moscow demanded that the admission and withdrawal of troops in the new NATO countries since 1997. The claim was still valid, Rjabkow said.
It is about “security of the entire continent”
The willingness to reduce NATO quotas is a test whether the United States “strives for a better relationship with Russia,” Rjabkow continued. The current considerations at the US Department of Defense to subtract around 10,000 soldiers from Eastern Europe could “use the security of the entire continent,” said the Russian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs. NATO had rejected the Ultimatum at the time. Finland and Sweden have joined the Alliance since the beginning of the Ukraine War. More troops are stationed there to secure the Baltic States.
After 1997, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) Finland (2023) and Sweden (2023) from Navo. NATO has a total of 32 members.
Source: Krone
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