Russia is considering NATO’s proposal for Jan. 12 discussions

Russia has made the West nervous with a troop deployment near Ukraine (Image: Pixabay/IGORN)

A Russia received a proposal from Otan to start talks on Jan. 12 about Moscow’s security concerns and is considering them, the Foreign Ministry reportedly said in a report by the TASS news agency on Sunday.

Russia, which has the West nervous about a troop deployment near Ukraine, last week unveiled a list of security proposals it wants to negotiate, including a NATO pledge to forgo any military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine.

“We have already received this proposal (from NATO) and we are considering it,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have said, according to TASS.

The United States and Ukraine say Russia may be preparing an invasion of its former Soviet neighbor. Russia denies it and says it is Ukraine’s growing closer relationship with NATO that has made the stalemate more serious. He compared it to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the world was on the brink of nuclear war.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia wanted to avoid a conflict, but needed an “immediate” response from the United States and its allies to its demands for guarantees. Moscow said it expected discussions with US officials on the matter to begin in January in Geneva.

Source From: Moneytimes

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