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Moscow handed over to the United States a draft NATO non-expansion treaty: Ukraine and Georgia are mentioned separately

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia) has published draft agreements with the United States and NATO countries on ensuring the security of Russia and the alliance member countries. The edition told in more detail with the BBC.

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The main requirement of Russia was legally enforced refusal of NATO from further expansion to the east and joining the alliance of Ukraine.

In response, Ukraine and Georgia declared that they considered such demands unacceptable.

From a message published on the ministry's website, it follows that draft agreements between Russia and the United States on security guarantees, as well as agreements on security measures for Russia and NATO member states, were transferred to US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried two days ago. when she was in Moscow.

Washington dispatched Donfried to the Russian capital following talks by US Presidents Joe Biden and Russian Presidents Vladimir Putin via videoconference on December 7.

The main topic of their conversation was Ukraine. Since October, Western media, citing American intelligence, have been reporting the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory.

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Moscow denies the existence of such a threat, and calls the movement of troops near the borders of Ukraine its sovereign right. At the same time, on November 18, Putin spoke about guarantees from NATO. According to his plan, the alliance should limit its expansion to the east.

What Putin Requires

At a meeting of the Foreign Ministry's collegium, Putin asked that the tension that arose from the threat of invasion be kept "as long as possible, so that it would not occur to them to arrange for us some unnecessary conflict on our western borders."

In addition, he instructed Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov "to raise the issue of seeking to provide Russia with serious long-term security guarantees in this area."

Putin returned to the topic on December 1, when ambassadors handed him their credentials in the Kremlin, promising to "insist on the elaboration of concrete agreements that would rule out any further NATO moves eastward and the deployment of weapons systems that threaten us."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs carried out Putin’s instructions and a week ago, on December 10, published a press release (now unavailable), the most notable point in which was the proposal to disavow the decision of the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008 - that “Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO.”

In addition, the Foreign Ministry proposed to demand legal guarantees excluding "further NATO advance to the east and the deployment of weapons systems that threaten us on the western borders of Russia." And also to ensure that the United States and other NATO members will not deploy strike weapons systems that pose a threat to Russia on the territory of neighboring countries, both NATO and non-NATO members.

What does Moscow now demand from NATO?

In the draft donated by Donfried, it is explicitly stated that NATO countries must "accept obligations" excluding further expansion of the alliance, including the accession of Ukraine, as well as other states.

In addition, NATO member states must abandon the conduct of any military activity on the territory of Ukraine, as well as other states of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.

The fourth article of the draft agreement with NATO says that Moscow and the countries that were members of the alliance as of May 27, 1997 do not deploy their armed forces and weapons on the territory of other European states “in addition to the forces stationed on this territory as of on May 27, 1997 ".

What guarantees does Russia give

In turn, Russia (like other participants in the proposed agreement) will not deploy ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles "in areas from which they are capable of hitting targets on the territory of other participants."

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In addition, "in order to prevent incidents from occurring" Moscow is ready to abandon military exercises and "other military activities above the brigade level in a zone of agreed width and configuration" on each side of the border line of Russia and the countries that are in a military alliance with it.

"That's not how things are done in diplomacy."

The Ukrainian authorities have not yet commented on the project. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance received draft Russian documents, and noted that any dialogue with Moscow “must also take into account NATO's concerns about Russia's actions, be based on the basic principles and documents of European security and take place in consultation with NATO's European partners. such as Ukraine ".

According to Stoltenberg, 30 NATO countries "made it clear that if Russia takes concrete steps to reduce tensions, we are ready to work on strengthening confidence-building measures."

A week ago, after the first statement by the Russian ministry on guarantees of NATO expansion, Stoltenberg rejected Moscow's demands.

“The issue of NATO relations with Ukraine will be decided only by the 30 members of the alliance and Ukraine - and no one else,” he said. “We cannot agree with Russian attempts to recreate a system in which large powerful countries like Russia have spheres of influence where they have the right to control or decide what others should do.”

“We will not compromise the core principles on which European security is built, particularly that all countries have the right to determine their own future and foreign policy without outside interference,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. “Without our European allies and partners there will be no negotiations on European security.”

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has previously stated that during the talks, Biden did not make any promises to Putin regarding Ukrainian NATO membership.

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“He remains true to the premise that the countries of the world can determine for themselves who they associate with,” Sullivan said.

Russia has warned the US in advance that the documents will be published on Friday, December 10, Kommersant writes, citing its sources. The publication claims: its source in the United States is surprised that Russia decided to publish the documents so quickly.

“This is not how things are usually done in diplomacy,” he emphasized.

"We go, and there is a barrier"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently announced that there is a "barrier" on the country's path to NATO.

“We continue our path to NATO. We are walking, and there is a barrier. It’s impossible to get around him,” Zelensky said.

Georgia called unacceptable the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the need to disavow the decision of the 2008 Bucharest summit that Georgia and Ukraine will become NATO members.

Ukraine considers joining NATO and the EU as its strategic objectives - this was enshrined in the Constitution in 2019.

Russia denies the very possibility of raising the question of Ukraine's accession to NATO, so it demands the withdrawal of the decision of the summit in Bucharest, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

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