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Москва предложила НАТО обязаться не брать в члены альянса Украину и другие страны и не проводить на территории Украины любые военные действия. Вашингтону Москва предложила также гарантировать невступление в НАТО стран бывшего СССР
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What Moscow Offered to Washington
In the draft treaty (the text is at the disposal of RBC), Russia in the introductory part proposed to consolidate the principle of the impossibility of unleashing a nuclear war. There are eight articles in the draft document.
-In the first article, Moscow proposes that the United States agree to act on the basis of the principles of indivisible and equal security, not harming each other's security , for which it proposes to take mutual obligations not to take actions and not to carry out measures that affect the security of the other side.
-The parties must not use the territory of other states for the purpose of preparing or carrying out an armed attack on Russia or the United States.
-The United States must assume obligations to rule out further eastward expansion of NATO and refuse to admit states that were previously part of the USSR into the alliance. This requirement applies at least to Ukraine and Georgia, which constantly talk about the desire to become members of the alliance.
-The United States should not create military bases on the territory of states that were formerly part of the USSR and are not members of NATO, as well as use their infrastructure for conducting any military activity, develop bilateral military cooperation with them.
-Russia also proposes to mutually refrain from deploying armed forces and weapons , including within the framework of international organizations, military alliances or coalitions, in areas where such deployment would be perceived by the other side as a threat to their national security, and also to refrain from flying heavy bombers equipped with for nuclear or non-nuclear weapons, and the presence of surface combatants of all classes in areas outside national airspace and outside national territorial waters, from where they can hit targets in Russia or the United States.
-Russia also proposed returning to the principle of refusing to deploy ground-based intermediate-range and short-range missiles outside the national territory.
-Moscow also considers it necessary to rule out the deployment of nuclear weapons outside the national territory.
What did Russia offer to NATO?
Moscow proposed to the Alliance to conclude an agreement in which it is proposed to return to the work of the Russia-NATO Council, restore communication channels and stop viewing each other as adversaries. In nine articles of the document, Russia also considers it necessary to fix the following.
-Non-deployment by Russia and NATO countries of their armed forces and weapons on the territory of all other European states in addition to the forces that were already on this territory as of May 27, 1997.
-Exclude the deployment of ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles in areas from which they are capable of hitting targets on the territory of other participants.
-Exclude further expansion of NATO , including the accession of Ukraine, as well as other states.
-NATO countries must refuse to conduct any military activity on the territory of Ukraine , as well as other states of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The draft Russian documents were commented at a briefing on Friday by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. He will negotiate on these topics.
“You only have to sign this,” he commented on Moscow's expectations from partners. According to him, the proposals should be taken as a basis and a platform, especially since the Russian projects already contain all the necessary references to previous documents, as well as a translation into English. Russian representatives are ready to start discussions immediately, anywhere. Among the possible points for negotiations, Ryabkov named Geneva.
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