NATO Secretary – General Jenss Stoltenbergs Russia’s demands that NATO formally revoke the 2008 decision to open its doors on Friday rejected To Georgia and Ukraine.
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“NATO ‘s relations with Ukraine will be decided by NATO’ s 30 Allies and Ukraine – and no one else, “in a joint press conference with Germany the new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, was told by Stoltenberg. “We cannot accept that Russia seeks to re-establish a system in which great powers such as Russia have spheres of influence where they can control or decide what others can do. “
Russia also insisted that guarantees Moscow with regard to NATO’s further non-expansion to the east, is in the “fundamental” interests of the West.
Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs He also called for NATO to stop conducting military maneuvers near Russia’s borders, adding that these and other security proposals would be put forward “in the near future”. ASV Georgia and Ukraine, which were promised to become members of NATO in the future in 2008, need to officially close their doors, the ministry said.
“It is in the fundamental interests of European security to formally abandon the decision of NATO’s 2008 Bucharest Summit that Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
NATO is violating everything by supporting the efforts of Ukraine and Georgia EDSO Member States’ guiding principle “not to strengthen their security on [citu valstu] at the expense of security, explained Moscow.
NATO must also ensure that weapons that could threaten Russia’s security are not deployed near Russia’s western borders, in NATO member states or elsewhere, the ministry said.
Moscow also said it wanted a “concrete” response from NATO on a number of earlier proposals, including a request to move military maneuvers beyond the “line of contact” between NATO and Russian forces.
Regular dialogue between Russian, US and NATO defense officials needs to be resumed.
Ukraine is not even close to joining NATO, but the United States is helping to train Ukraine’s armed forces and has pledged $ 2.5 billion to strengthen the army that suffered in Russia’s 2014 attack.
Ukraine accuses Russia of preparing tens of thousands of troops for a possible large-scale attack on its neighbor, raising fears that fighting with Moscow-backed militant gangs in eastern Ukraine would escalate into an open war between the two countries.
Russia denies any plans to attack, accusing Ukraine and the United States of destabilizing behavior. At the same time, Moscow is demanding assurances that NATO will not continue to expand eastwards.
Ukraine, for its part, rejects such guarantees as illegal and seeks assurances that no agreement will be reached without its participation.
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