The North Atlantic Alliance is not going to deploy troops in Ukraine. This was announced on Tuesday, January 25, in an interview with CNN by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
“NATO will not deploy combat units in Ukraine,” Stoltenberg said.
In addition, the Secretary General said that NATO will send Russia a response to security proposals this week.
“We are finalizing the proposals in NATO, a written document that we will send later this week. We will do this in parallel with the United States,” Stoltenberg added.
On January 24, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that Washington would continue to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank and was not going to leave the allies that the United States assured of support. She added that US President Joe Biden is confident in Russia’s alleged ability to launch military operations against Ukraine “at any moment.”
In turn, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia has never threatened the Ukrainian people. In addition, the Foreign Ministry has repeatedly stressed that the Russian Federation did not attack and does not plan to attack Ukraine.
On January 21, Lavrov said after meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Geneva that Washington had finally agreed to provide Moscow with written responses to security guarantee proposals. In the written proposals, the US will describe its views on how countries can enhance each other’s sense of security.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the same day that Russia would make “serious political decisions” if the US and NATO response on security guarantees was disappointing. At the same time, Ryabkov noted that the role of diplomacy in any case remains central.
Negotiations on security guarantees were held in three stages in January. On January 10, a meeting of the Russian and US delegations took place in Geneva. On January 12, a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held in Brussels, and on January 13, consultations ended at the Vienna site of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
On December 17, the Russian Foreign Ministry published draft agreements between Russia, the United States and NATO on security guarantees. It follows from the documents that the alliance must renounce any military activity on the territory of Ukraine and other states of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. Also, Russia and NATO must pledge not to create conditions that can be regarded as a threat by the other side.
Source: IZ
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