White House: US-Russia Bilateral Talks January 10 on Ukraine, Security

For negotiations on January 10 are being prepared USA and the Russia, for issues starting with the tensions in Ukraine to both sides’ concerns about security and nuclear weapons control, according to a White House statement, but Russian diplomacy was reluctant to confirm that this date is being considered, but the appointment has not been finalized.

A spokesman for the US President’s National Security Council gave the date to the press, assuring that US “willing to engage in dialogue with Russia” and adding that then A Russia-NATO Council meeting on January 12 may follow and Russia’s meeting with the other members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), of which the United States is a member, on the 13th of January.

For his part, the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov “I can confirm that these dates are being considered, but there is no final agreement yet,” he told Russian news agency Sputnik, adding that Moscow had sent concrete proposals to Washington on the the American side seems to see things differently. “Some anonymous US officials are talking about a discussion about Ukraine, as well as about arms control. “What kind of weapons control are we talking about?” Mr. Ryabkov asked.

The commitments that Russia is asking of the United States

Russia demands from the US and NATO commit that Ukraine will not become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, something that from the point of view of Moscow would pose a threat to its national security, according to the APE-MPE.

For a month, Westerners have been accusing Russia of gathers troops on its border with Ukraine and possibly planning a military operation against Kiev. Moscow denies this; it counters that it is threatened by the “challenges” of Ukraine and NATO, demanding that the latter commit itself not to expand further into the former Soviet Union.

In a gesture that broke with the generally confidential nature of diplomatic talks, Russia recently made public two draft treaties, one of which provides for the prevention of NATO enlargement, in particular Ukraine’s accession to the Atlantic Alliance, and the second for the cessation of all Western military activity near the Russian border.

For his part, the US official who spoke to reporters earlier hinted that the January talks would be part of the so-called strategic dialogue, which was agreed to begin during the of Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva in June.

“Once we sit down at the table to discuss, Russia will put its own concerns on the table, and we will put our own,” said a spokesman for the US presidency’s National Security Council. no decision will be made for Ukraine without Ukraine.