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NATO-Russia talks at an impasse amid ‘real risk’ of Ukraine war

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By SRI NewsDesk Published January 13, 2022
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NATO and the United States have rejected crucial Russian security demands for easing pressures over Ukraine but left open the possibility of unborn addresses with Moscow on arms control, bullet deployments, and ways to help military incidents between Russia and the West.

The opinions came at a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council on Wednesday, the first of its kind by more than two times. That Russia’s delegation didn’t walk out of the addresses and remained open to the prospect of unborn meetings despite the West’s rebuffing central demands were seen as positive notes in a week of high-position meetings aimed at staving off a stressed Russian irruption of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants NATO to withdraw its colors and military outfit from countries neighboring Russia, which includes Ukraine but also NATO abettors like Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Putin also wants the 30- nation military alliance to agree not to admit any further members.

The meeting was called as Russia has concentrated on estimated combat-ready colors, tanks, and heavy military outfits near Ukraine’s eastern border.

The #NATO #Russia Council will meet today to talk about issues related to #European security, mainly the situation in and around #Ukraine

— Strategic Research Institute (@SRI_org) January 12, 2022

Russia has denied that it has fresh plans to attack its neighbor and, in turn, accuses the West of hanging its security.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, who chaired the meeting, said NATO nations and Russian envoys both “ expressed the need to renew dialogue and to explore a schedule of unborn meetings.”

Stoltenberg said NATO is eager to bandy ways to help dangerous military incidents or accidents and reduce space and cyber-threats, as well as to talk about arms control and demilitarization, including setting, agreed on limits on bullet deployments.

But Stoltenberg said any addresses about Ukraine would not be easy. Russia adjoined the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and backed secessionists in eastern Ukraine. In the times since, fighting there has killed further than people and devastated Ukraine’s artificial heartland, known as the Donbas.

“ There are significant differences between NATO abettors and Russia on this issue” of Ukraine potentially joining NATO, Stoltenberg told journalists after what he said was “ a veritably serious and direct exchange” with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko and Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin.

A military buildup along the Ukrainian border is further straining ties between Russia and the U.S., after clashes over cybercrime, expulsions of diplomats and a migrant crisis in Belarus. WSJ explains what is deepening the rift between Washington and Moscow. Photo Composite: Michelle Inez Simon

“ There’s a real threat for new fortified conflict in Europe,” Stoltenberg added.

Stoltenberg underscored that Ukraine has the right to decide its unborn security arrangements and that NATO would continue to leave its door open to new members, rejecting a crucial demand by Putin that the military organization halts its expansion.

“ No bone differently has anything to say, and of course, Russia doesn’t have a prescription,” he said.

Grushko, for his part, described Wednesday’s addresses as “ serious, deep and substantial.” He offered a less auspicious assessment, emphasizing that NATO’s expansion poses trouble to Russia’s security, but also didn’t rule out unborn conversations with the alliance.

Read: US, Russia hold talks amid tensions linked to Ukraine

“ It’s absolutely imperative to end the policy of open doors and offer Russia fairly binding guarantees preventing further NATO’s expansion eastward,” Grushko added.

“ The freedom to choose ways of icing one’s security mustn’t be enforced in a way that infringes of licit security interests of others.”

Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler said that allowing Russia to help Ukraine from one day joining NATO was a commodity the alliance couldn’t countenance.

“ This is the abecedarian problem of this meeting,” she said.

“ And it was made veritably clear by Stoltenberg that although you have two sides, Russia and NATO, who feel to have agreed to at least continue with dialogue, eventually neither of them sounded to have planted any other common ground but they’re rather wedged in their positions,” Butler added.

‘Non-starters’
Speaking after the meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman reaffirmed that some of Putin’s security demands “ are simply non-starters”.

“ We’ll not slam the door shut on NATO’s open-door policy,” she told journalists after nearly four hours of addresses. “ We aren’t going to agree that NATO can not expand any farther.”

While noting that “ escalation doesn’t produce optimum conditions for tactfulness, to say the least,” Sherman also expressed sanguinity, given that Moscow didn’t dismiss the idea of further addresses.

Grushko latterly said Moscow would use military means to neutralize security pitfalls if tactfulness proved inadequate.

Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Defence Minister Fomin as saying NATO’s “ ignoring” of Russian security proffers created the threat of “ incidents and conflicts”.

The American delegation, left, and its Russian counterparts as they met in Geneva on Monday.Credit…Pool photo by Denis Balibouse

The NATO-Russia Council was set up two decades ago, but full meetings broke when Russia adjoined the Crimean Peninsula seven times agone. It has met only sporadically since, the last time being in July 2019.

Among the Russian proffers rejected on Wednesday were a draft agreement with NATO countries and the offer of a convention between Russia and the United States.

The agreement would have needed NATO to halt all class plans, not just with Ukraine, and gauge down its presence in countries close to Russia’s borders. In exchange, Russia would pledge to limit its war games and to end low-position conflict like aircraft- buzzing incidents.

Championing such an agreement would mean NATO abandoning a crucial tenet of its founding convention, which holds the alliance can invite in any willing European country that can contribute to security in the North Atlantic area and fulfill the scores of class.

Read: Biden to speak with Ukraine leader after warning Russia not to invade

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