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| Foreign Ministry: For now in arms control, Russia is offered to conduct a security dialogue only on US terms |
| 2024-03-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] For now, Russia is offered to conduct dialogue only on US terms, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on March 18. “For now, Russia is invited to conduct a dialogue exclusively on the US terms and only on those issues that are of interest to Washington,” the department told RIA Novosti. Diplomats called US proposals to begin an arms control discussion with Russia an exercise in hypocrisy and demagoguery. They added that Russia’s position remains unchanged; Moscow is ready to discuss issues of security and stability only in a single complex. As the ministry noted, Russia, in response to the West’s refusal of dialogue and the strengthening of the network of military bases near the Russian borders, will continue to create a fist of fire and successfully carry out the tasks of a special military operation in Ukraine. Earlier, on March 18, the American permanent representative to the UN said that the United States wishes to enter into bilateral discussions on arms control with Russia and China without preconditions. During one of the online conferences in December 2023, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said that the difficulty in relations between Moscow and Washington was the lack of dialogue. The politician drew attention to the fact that the biggest problem is that the United States has no dialogue with Russia at all. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in November 2023 that relations with American partners are in a deplorable state. He stressed that in such a situation there should be no dialogue on arms control. |
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