GENEVA – A new round of security talks between the United States and Russia ended without a diplomatic breakthrough in Geneva. As per reportrs, the US side referred to the current talks between the two major world powers as "our diplomacy in search of a de-escalation with Russia," while the Russian side referred to them as "security assurances dialogues."
The American delegation was led by Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who also led the two previous bilateral US-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogues in Geneva last year, and the Russian team was led by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. "The conversations were challenging, long, highly professional, deep, concrete, without any attempts to gloss over certain sharp edges," Ryabkov said at a press conference following the meetings on Monday night.
"We got the impression that the Americans were quite interested in the Russian proposals and were studying them thoroughly." Sherman stated during a separate press conference that "Over the course of nearly eight hours at the US Mission in Geneva, we had an open and honest discussion. Since President (Joe) Biden and President (Vladimir) Putin met in Geneva last June, the US-Russia Strategic Stability Dialogue has met three times "..
The Russian Mission in Geneva quoted Ryabkov as adding that Moscow was seeking legally enforceable commitments from NATO not to expand farther east. He was cited as saying, "It should demolish what it has produced since 1997 while driven by anti-Russia prejudices and mistaken notions about our country's policies."
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