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Nuland announces talks between Lavrov and Blinken
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WASHINGTON DC, 31 January 2022, (TON): Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said “the US administration sees signs of Russian interest in dialogue over Washington’s responses to its European security guarantee proposal.”
Nuland said on CBS “as you know, we sent our diplomatic proposals to Russia. NATO took a similar step this week. And we saw some signs that Russia is interested in contacts on these proposals.”
As a senior US diplomat noted, one sign of such interest from Moscow is the fact that “Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are likely to have a conversation in the coming week.”
At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security assurances.
Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further eastward expansion of NATO, joining the Ukrainian bloc, and establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries.
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