(Finance) – Meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrovand the President Vladimir Putinon the counter-responses to be given to the US and the Atlantic Alliance regarding the guarantees of safety asked from Moscow. For Lavrov, the US and NATO are ready for “serious negotiations” with Russia on this issue. “Now all of our initiatives should have a concrete focus, a willingness to start serious negotiations”, added the minister. Lavrov noted that the first part of the American response does not satisfy Russia, while the second part is more constructive. “It also includes quite specific measures regarding the solution of the problems intermediate land missiles and short-range after the Americans destroyed the treaty in question. It also contains specific proposals for a whole range of measures to reduce military risks, build confidence, and measures transparency military. It is interesting to note that almost all of these components that the Americans have included in their response reflect the initiatives that the Russian Federation has been promoting in recent years, “the minister said.
According to the Russian news agency Tass, President Putin reiterated during the meeting that the expansion of the Born eastward “is infinite and very dangerous” and that this expansion occurs “at the expense of the former Soviet republics, including Ukraine”. Meanwhile, on the pages of the Ria Novosti agency, there is talk of a document of ten pages to defuse the Ukrainian crisis which would contain the “response of Russia to the requests of the United States and NATO regarding the security guarantees” requested by Moscow to start a process of de-escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. At the top of the Kremlin’s demands, that of the “niet” at the entry of Kiev into NATO. The document would have already had Putin’s approval.
Meanwhile, work is also underway on an interview between foreign ministers Sergey Lavrov and Luigi Di Maio, which should be held during the week. “The Italian side has asked to hold a meeting and a contact in this regard is being worked on”, the spokeswoman of the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, told AGI, underlining that for now it is not clear the format of the interview. .