• About us
  • Impressum
  • Contact
CIVIL Today
  • HOME
  • NEWSROOM
  • POLITICS
  • SOCIETY
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • POINT OF VIEW
  • WORLD
  • WAR IN UKRAINE
    • All
    • А YEAR OF HEROISM
    • БОРОТЬБА УКРАЇНИ
    Uniting for Ukraine and Europe’s Future: From Words to Strategic Action

    Uniting for Ukraine and Europe’s Future: From Words to Strategic Action

    Six key points from the peace summit in Switzerland: Why a just peace for Ukraine means peace for the world

    If Ukraine Stands, Freedom Stands

    CIVIL: Stop the Evil – Russia’s Missile Terror Must End Now!

    CIVIL: Stop the Evil – Russia’s Missile Terror Must End Now!

    Comment from the Embassy of Ukraine: Russian Propaganda Is an Information Weapon – Media Must Act Responsibly

    Comment from the Embassy of Ukraine: Russian Propaganda Is an Information Weapon – Media Must Act Responsibly

    KREMLIN PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN: False mutiny claims spread disinformation attempting to destabilize frontline morale and leadership in Ukraine

    KREMLIN PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN: False mutiny claims spread disinformation attempting to destabilize frontline morale and leadership in Ukraine

    The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    Putin’s losing hand: The myth of Russian strength and Trump’s wild card

    Putin’s losing hand: The myth of Russian strength and Trump’s wild card

    The (not so) silent war: Russia’s hybrid warfare operations and the threats to Western democracy

    The (not so) silent war: Russia’s hybrid warfare operations and the threats to Western democracy

    Ressmann: What is happening with the Trumps administration is an opportunity for Europe to unify and become the new house of democracy and human rights in the world

    Ressmann: What is happening with the Trumps administration is an opportunity for Europe to unify and become the new house of democracy and human rights in the world

No Result
View All Result
  • HOME
  • NEWSROOM
  • POLITICS
  • SOCIETY
  • OPINION
    • EDITORIAL
    • POINT OF VIEW
  • WORLD
  • WAR IN UKRAINE
    • All
    • А YEAR OF HEROISM
    • БОРОТЬБА УКРАЇНИ
    Uniting for Ukraine and Europe’s Future: From Words to Strategic Action

    Uniting for Ukraine and Europe’s Future: From Words to Strategic Action

    Six key points from the peace summit in Switzerland: Why a just peace for Ukraine means peace for the world

    If Ukraine Stands, Freedom Stands

    CIVIL: Stop the Evil – Russia’s Missile Terror Must End Now!

    CIVIL: Stop the Evil – Russia’s Missile Terror Must End Now!

    Comment from the Embassy of Ukraine: Russian Propaganda Is an Information Weapon – Media Must Act Responsibly

    Comment from the Embassy of Ukraine: Russian Propaganda Is an Information Weapon – Media Must Act Responsibly

    KREMLIN PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN: False mutiny claims spread disinformation attempting to destabilize frontline morale and leadership in Ukraine

    KREMLIN PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN: False mutiny claims spread disinformation attempting to destabilize frontline morale and leadership in Ukraine

    The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    Putin’s losing hand: The myth of Russian strength and Trump’s wild card

    Putin’s losing hand: The myth of Russian strength and Trump’s wild card

    The (not so) silent war: Russia’s hybrid warfare operations and the threats to Western democracy

    The (not so) silent war: Russia’s hybrid warfare operations and the threats to Western democracy

    Ressmann: What is happening with the Trumps administration is an opportunity for Europe to unify and become the new house of democracy and human rights in the world

    Ressmann: What is happening with the Trumps administration is an opportunity for Europe to unify and become the new house of democracy and human rights in the world

No Result
View All Result
CIVIL Today
No Result
View All Result
Home ANALYSIS

Tense talks in Geneva, US and Russia in tensest relations since the end of the Cold War

The US and Russia did not narrow their differences on Ukraine and wider European security, as Moscow insists on the demands that Washington says it cannot accept. Following the meeting in Geneva, the US and Russian delegations, in regards to the Ukraine crisis and European security, are continuing talks in Brussels, and then, by the end of the week, at the OSCE meeting in Vienna.

January 12, 2022
in ANALYSIS, WORLD
Tense talks in Geneva, US and Russia in tensest relations since the end of the Cold War
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attend security talks at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland January 10, 2022 / REUTERS

 

ALEKSANDAR NIKOLIC PISAREV

Central news of all world agencies are the eight-hour talks that have just completed between official representatives of Russia and the US in Geneva on issues related to Ukraine and European security. As Civilmedia wrote extensively, according to all assessments, European security is threatened with the enormous buildup of Russian military forces on the border with Ukraine, related to the demands of Moscow to stop the expansion of NATO in the countries of eastern Europe.

 

The meeting was held in the headquarters of the US Diplomatic Mission Geneva, in an atmosphere of the tensest relations between the superpowers in the last three decades since the end of the Cold War. By the end of the week – on Wednesday, there will be talks between Russia and NATO in Brussels, and then at the OSCE meeting in Vienna.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Switzerland, July 28, 2021 / (Wikimedia commons)

 

Russia demands the impossible

The views of the two sides have not come closer, as it is obvious that Russia demands complete reshaping of the European security image. On the other hand, the US, NATO and their European allies have a consensus on Russia’s approach and that everything that US and NATO official representatives will say is in line with the European allies. Their assessments are that the main threat to European security in the past twenty years has come from Russia.

Reuters assesses that the United States and Russia in Geneva did not narrow their differences on Ukraine and wider European security, as Moscow insists on the demands that Washington says it cannot accept.

 

 

 

Representative of the Russian delegation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, only repeated Moscow’s demands for a ban on further NATO expansion and an end to the activities of the Alliance in the countries of central and eastern Europe that have entered the Alliance after 1997.

“I underline that for us, it’s absolutely mandatory to make sure that Ukraine never, never, ever becomes a member of NATO. It’s a matter of Russia’s national security. We do not trust the other side and we need solid, iron-clad, legally binding and irrefutable guarantees for that”– said Ryabkov.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, who led the US delegation at the talks in Geneva, responded to such demand by simply saying –the US will not allow anyone to undermine NATO’s open door policy and slam the door on the Alliance for aspirants.

“We will not forego on bilateral cooperation with sovereign states that wish to work with United States and will not make decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine, about Europe without Europe and about NATO without NATO” – said Sherman.

UN Mission in Geneva

Wendy Sherman, after the talks, stated that the Russian proposals in which Moscow demands guarantees that Ukraine will never join NATO are unacceptable and that Moscow cannot slam the wide-open doors of the North Atlantic Treaty to any country. Free Europe in English, described the talks in Geneva more as „ “serious and businesslike”,  rather than concrete negotiations.

 

Russia is not satisfied with the talks in Geneva. “Unfortunately we have a great disparity in our principled approaches and diametrically opposite views on what needs to be done” – said Sergei Ryabkov. He assessed the talks as complex and professional, but that a greater step forward and compromises are needed for success. He stated at the meeting that “no progress has been achieved” in terms of Moscow’s demands that Ukraine be barred from joining the NATO Alliance. And he insisted –future progress in the negotiations with US diplomats to be dictated on this issue.

Train transporting Russian weapons, most likely 2С19 MSTA-S and BMR howitzers in Kerch, Ukraine, March 27, 2021 (source: citizen journalist)

 

Russia threatening with missiles

Moscow further denies any such plans to invade Ukraine, but warns that it its demands after this series of talks are not accepted, it will be forced to take certain “military – technical measures“. Moscow has still not specified what exactly this means, but does hint that it could redeploy mid-range hypersonic missiles on the borders with Europe with which it could hit targets with great precision at a distance of 1,000 kilometers and that it would be its response if NATO installs its missiles in Ukraine. Therefore, Russia expects the United States to be willing to a compromise.

Map: Russian military forces at Ukraine borders (freebeacon.com)

The European Union is expected to be an active part of these US – Russia negotiations and dialogue at the talks in Brussels. Since 2014, the EU has provided assistance to the Ukraine in the amount of 17 billion euros. It must be included in the negotiations between the United States and Russia on resolving the Ukraine crisis, because it is also a European crisis, and the security of Europe depends on the security of Ukraine.

The draft documents from the series of talks that will last until the end of the week, are not completed yet and known to the wider public, but it can be sensed that there are strong positions in them with which Russia will never agree, and those being that neither Europe, nor the United States, or any other NATO member will allow Russia to decide for other countries whether they will join NATO or any other alliance. Those are sovereign decisions of those countries and of the very alliances. NATO has open doors and neither Russia, nor any other country can close them.

 

Translation: N. Cvetkovska

Print Friendly, PDF & Email
Next Post
Government of North Macedonia in first, Parliament in third place in the region according to Openness Index

Government holds 132nd session

TOP 5

  • The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    The Price of Peace: When Victims Are Told to Surrender

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • KREMLIN PROPAGANDA STRIKES AGAIN: False mutiny claims spread disinformation attempting to destabilize frontline morale and leadership in Ukraine

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • No Truth, No Freedom: Freedom Isn’t Generated – It Is Defended

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Data, knowledge, wisdom… Unicorn!

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Westminster Alliance for Ukraine to Host a Landmark Event on European Defence Strategy and Support for Ukraine

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

  • About Theme
  • About us
  • ADVERTISE WITH US
  • Authors List
  • Blog
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • Civil.Today
  • Contact
  • Contact
  • COOKIE POLICY
  • COPYRIGHT
  • Digital library
  • Edit
  • Edit Profile
  • Forum
  • FullWidth Page
  • Gallery
  • Home
  • Impressum
  • Insert Post
  • My Account
  • Pinterst Style
  • Posts
  • Pricing
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • Resilient Journalism Countering Disinformation and Propaganda publication
  • Sample Page
  • Shop
  • ShortCodes
  • Signup Page
  • Sitemap Page
  • TERMS & CONDITIONS
  • TimeLine Blog
  • Timeline Page
  • Topics
  • Videos

© 2021 CIVIL - Center For Freedom

No Result
View All Result
  • NEWSROOM
  • POLITICS
  • SOCIETY
  • ECONOMY
  • OPINION
    • POINT OF VIEW
    • EDITORIAL
  • WORLD
  • MONITORING
  • WAR IN UKRAINE
  • About us
  • Impressum
  • Contact

© 2021 CIVIL - Center For Freedom