By receiving his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, the Russian President noted the Washington’s refusal of his “security proposals” but suggest that the dialogue would continue.
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Failure finding But hope maintained to reach a “solution”. It is on this thread that Vladimir Putin evolves after the Westerners’ refusal to access the Russian “security proposals” concerning the European security order. “We carefully analyze the written responses received from the United States and NATO, but it is already clear that the key concerns of Russia have been ignored,” said Russian President Tuesday 1 er February, after meeting with the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
m. Putin had erected the same observation a few days earlier, during a telephone interview with Emmanuel Macron, but he had not yet expressed publicly. However, in this durable diplomatic crisis, and on which places the threat of military climbing, the word of the Kremlin is scrutiny.
Vladimir Putin has not been so far as to share its intentions, or set maturity for a Russian replica. But he carefully avoided slamming the door of the discussions, saying still hope “a solution that satisfies everyone’s interest and safety – Europe, Ukraine, Russia”. To say that the tone of the Russian President is conciliatory would be excessive. Mr. Putin once again attributed the responsibility of the Tensions to Westerners, who would have deceived “Russia and would seek to” stem “in” using Ukraine as an instrument, to entail us in armed conflict. ” / p>
But there is a difference in size with the messages worn in recent weeks by the Russian negotiators. These have continued to alert the need to conclude as soon as possible, and to prevent, especially, that a Western refusal on the most disputed points would result in the end of the discussions.
Rejection of Russian applications
These Russian requests were asked on paper in December 2021, in the form of two NATO-submitted agreements and the United States. Their most sensitive points for the west were also those found to be the most essential by Moscow: prohibition of any future enlargement of NATO, including Ukraine; Withdrawal of the Alliance forces from the countries that have become members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after 1997; Prohibition of any military cooperation with the countries of the former NATO non-USSS.
In the case of NATO, Mr. Putin, for the first time, on Tuesday, linked this claim to the situation of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014: “Imagine, Ukraine Member of the NATO who would launch a military operation to resume Crimea, a Russian sovereign territory, “he said. And what? We would make war on NATO?”
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