The meeting in Geneva, Friday, between the Head of American Diplomacy, Antony Blinken, and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, did not allow any substantial advance.
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The arguments are known, the disagreements acted, the registered mutual charges. Nevertheless, the United States and Russia continue their intense diplomatic exchanges, committed for several weeks about Ukraine and more broadly strategic security in Europe. Friday 21 January, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, met in Geneva (Switzerland), which Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin had engaged this dialogue in June 2021. The difference , today, is the Russian military threat to Ukraine, which Washington estimates imminent.
This meeting of just an hour – much shorter than the eight-hour discussion inaugurating on January 10, this cycle of negotiations – will have served only a point of stage. “We did not expect a major breakthrough today,” said Antony Blinken at a press point, but I think we are now engaged on a clearer way, to understand our mutual positions. “Both Diplomats have considered the possibility of a new summit between the US President Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, provided that he is well prepared and substantial. The first city will bring together its security advisers in Camp David, to prepare for the suite.
Main teaching at the end of the Geneva discussion: The US party announced that it would respond in writing, by a week, to the proposals made by Moscow, perceived as an ultimatum. On December 17, 2021, Russian diplomacy had published two draft treaties, intended for NATO and the United States, imposing a prohibition of any new enlargement of the Alliance and a decline of its strengths of the entire periphery Russia.
Since, Washington had launched intense consultations with its European allies to present a common front against Russia. In terms of principles, consensus is clear: Moscow can not claim a right to look at the perimeter and deployment of the Atlantic Alliance. In addition, Ukraine, like any sovereign nation, is free to choose its orientation. Unsurprisingly, the American response should formalize this end in writing. On the other hand, clear differences appear behind the scenes, between allies, on the economic sanctions against Russia in the event of a military operation, Europeans fearing that their own savings sufferly.
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