RUSSIA’S MAIN DEMANDS NOT ‘TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT’, MOSCOW CLAIMS

Thu 27 January 2022:

The Kremlin says it looks clear that Russia’s main demands have not been taken into account by Washington in the latter’s response to Moscow’s security proposals.

“It cannot be said that our views were taken into account, or that a readiness to take our concerns into account was demonstrated,” Peskov told reporters.

The Kremlin spokesman did however say it was in both Moscow and Washington’s interests to continue dialogue, though warned that remarks out of Washington and NATO about Russia’s main demands being unacceptable did not leave a lot of room for optimism.

He also described the current tensions as reminiscent of the Cold War era.

NATO weighing deployments to Slovakia, FM says

Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok has said NATO is considering deploying some troops in Slovakia along with other countries on its eastern flank in response to Russia’s military build-up near Ukraine.

Korcok told reporters in a briefing shown on news website aktuality.sk that there had been no decisions taken as of yet, the situation was developing and the NATO member country’s government had no position on the issue at the moment.

China urges ‘calm’ from all parties

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Blinken that Beijing wants to see all parties involved remain calm.

“We call on all parties to stay calm and refrain from doing things that agitate tensions and hype up the crisis,” Wang told the US secretary of state late on Wednesday, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

In an apparent reference to Russia’s objections to NATO’s expansion, Wang also said that regional security could not be guaranteed by strengthening or even expanding military blocs.

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