Leonid Slutsky: “In an interview with the Welt newspaper Borrell again burst out with outrageous exclamations that the European Union was not invited to negotiations on global security”


Leonid Slutsky: “In an interview with the Welt newspaper, Borrell again burst out with outrageous exclamations that the European Union had not been invited to negotiate on global security. They say that Russia is ready to discuss issues of guarantees with the US and NATO “without involving the EU.” At the same time, he called Moscow’s demands to stop the expansion of the North Atlantic alliance “completely unacceptable.” According to him, “only the winners” present their conditions.

I would like to ask Mr. Borrel, and who, in his opinion, is this very winner? Is it really the EU, which in recent years has strictly adhered to the Washington fairway in its decisions?

We are going to talk with those who can really influence the situation. The talks are planned in different formats and at several venues, including the OSCE. And yes, the conditions are now really forced to set by Russia. The question of who is the winner in this aggravation of the security situation on the continent (by no means our fault) is rhetorical.

Moscow’s security initiatives are not an ultimatum. This is a fair demand to legally enshrine the rules of interaction in conditions where we have already been deceived more than once in matters of NATO’s eastward advance.

We expect the first contacts at the talks at the beginning of the year. We really hope for constructiveness, without populism and Russophobic hysterics. “

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