The United States and NATO offered a military de-escalation to Russia to resolve the crisis over Ukraine but they did not renounce the possible entry of this country into the Atlantic Alliance, according to the letters that Washington and Brussels sent to the Kremlin and to which the Spanish newspaper had access The country.
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Both arguments appear in the written responses of U.S and NATO sent to Russia to try to resolve the tensions between the two blocs, after Moscow demanded that the door be closed to the incorporation of Ukraine into NATO and the signing of a security agreement with Europe.
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According to the newspaper, which publishes photos obtained from the confidential documents, both Washington and the Alliance offer to Putin to negotiate disarmament agreements and confidence-building measures in different forums including the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the US-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue and the NATO-Russia Council.
Considering the ongoing substantial, unilateral and unjustified military deployment in and around Ukraine and Belarus, we call on Russia to immediately de-escalate the situation in a verifiable, timely and lasting manner. NATO in his reply to Moscow.
“The position of the United States Government is that progress can only be achieved on these issues (disarmament and confidence measures) in an environment of de-escalation of Russia’s threatening actions towards Ukraine,” Washington warns.
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The Washington document makes it clear, according to The countrywhich “continues to firmly support NATO’s open-door policy”, which is why it does not exclude the future incorporation of countries such as Ukraine or Georgia into the Alliance.
It also specifies that, in any case, this matter must be addressed in the NATO-Russia Council (NCR, for its acronym in English).
Also the confidential NATO text, to which he had access The countryreaffirms its open-door policy and underlines the right of all States to choose their security arrangements “free from interference”.
Amid the tension, the United States and Russia They resumed direct dialogue on Tuesday, although it served little more than to reiterate their differences.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet replied to the two letters but warned the West after receiving them that he has ignored the security guarantees that Moscow had demanded.
These include curbing NATO’s further expansion, particularly into Ukraine and Georgia, and ending all military cooperation with the former Soviet republics.
The Russian president left the door open for dialogue, but assured that it must take into account Russian concerns about security in Europe that Moscow raised with the US and NATO.
Russia does not comment on the leak of the US response.
The Kremlin on Wednesday declined to comment on the written response to its security demands offered by the United States and NATO.
“We have not published anything and I do not want to comment on it,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said in his daily telephone briefing.
Peskov added that in the Kremlin they have seen the publication of The country and suggested to the journalists that they request comments from that newspaper or from the Spanish authorities.
The Spanish newspaper published photos of the confidential documents, in which the US and the Alliance offer a military de-escalation to Russia to resolve the crisis around Ukraine but without giving up the possible entry of that country into NATO, as as Moscow demands.
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