Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday, December 17 Published A series of appeals to Western governments to ease tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Requests are contained in two documents, Someone went to America E One for NATO, A military alliance comprising a large part of the Western world, in which it seeks some guarantees to resolve the border crisis with Ukraine: these include a request that Ukraine never join NATO and that all NATO military forces withdraw. Countries from different parts of Central and Eastern Europe.

Requests come at a very delicate moment for international equilibrium. In recent weeks, the Russian government has mobilized tens of thousands of troops and vehicles along the Ukrainian border, raising fears of a possible invasion of Ukraine or its eastern part by Western powers, which are currently at loggerheads with the Ukrainians. Government and pro-Russian militias.

Requests contained in both documents were partially circulated in recent days, and some of them were allegedly handed over to US counterpart Joe Biden during a December 7 video conference meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the two documents were due to be submitted to the United States and NATO on December 15.

Following a note published by the Russian government, there has already been a lot of discussion in recent days Request for legal guarantee Ukraine will never join NATO. This is a situation that is considered unacceptable and shameful to Western countries, especially the United States: it is unacceptable for Ukraine to surrender to Russian influence a few years after leaving the country. Ousts pro-Russian government Viktor Yanukovych seeks to reconcile with Western nations. It is a shame, because more than 10 years ago NATO promised Ukraine that it would be welcomed among its members.

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However, the document published on Friday is more detailed and refers to all the countries that were part of the former Soviet Union, not just Ukraine: another country that could be included in such a possible agreement would be Georgia. Soviet countries want to join NATO.

But both documents, which are difficult for Western nations to accept, make similar imaginative demands. First, it called for the withdrawal of NATO troops from all non-aligned countries prior to 1997, when the three countries within the Soviet bloc were first invited to join NATO: Poland and the Czech Republic (which officially entered in 1999).

In addition to these three, the agreement applies to all other Central and Eastern European countries that have joined the alliance in recent years: Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro and Macedonia. North.

Among other demands, the United States and Russia should ban the deployment of warships and aircraft capable of attacking other nation’s targets outside their national territories; Commitment not to deploy medium-range missiles capable of striking another country’s territory within and beyond its own borders; It is the withdrawal of all nuclear weapons deployed in foreign countries and the commitment not to deploy new ones.

Second Dimitri train, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, The tank seems Headquartered in Moscow, which handles international cooperation, the fact that the Russian government has decided to make these documents public means that Russia considers Western countries impossible to accept them, as they would have remained secret under any other circumstances.

At the same time, the United States has not responded to Russia’s requests on the issue, and White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the two documents would be discussed with other NATO countries: “There can be no European security talks without the involvement of our European allies.” We do not consider it necessary to comment on such fabrications. “