The West will regret losing the opportunity to agree with it once again Russia for guarantees of non-extension NATO to the east, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said today.
“We can not rely on the assurances of NATO Brussels, we see what happens to unfounded promises. “Over the years, the situation in Europe is deteriorating dramatically as a result of NATO expansion, the US-led appropriation of territories directly touching our borders,” Ryabkov said.
Russia’s foreign minister has said that this is why Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the Foreign Ministry to seek binding legal guarantees to prevent “further destruction of the security system in that form.” which can be maintained for the time being “. “If this is not achieved, our response measures, our countermeasures will be extremely harsh, and the West will regret, I would say, that they will once again lose the opportunity to agree with Russia on a sound basis,” Ryabkov said. .
Speaking at the presentation of the credentials of the ambassadors of 20 countries, including NATO countries, the Russian president said yesterday that Moscow “in its dialogue with the United States and its allies” would seek to reach some “concrete agreements.” which will preclude the further advance of NATO to the east “, as well as the installation in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory of weapons systems that Moscow considers to be a threat. At the same time, he said that Russia would need legal guarantees, “because the Western partners did not keep their verbal commitments.”
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