Russia (bbabo.net), - The American side continues to escalate anti-Russian hysteria and engage in frank substitution of concepts. This was stated by Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, commenting on a telephone conversation held the day before by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

According to him, the US representative again assured that Washington is ready to continue discussing security issues. However, this did not prevent repeating the theses about the right of states to choose alliances, along the way "forgetting" about the commitments signed by the United States within the OSCE on the indivisibility of security. "The West, obviously, understands its obligations exclusively selectively and only in its own favor," Slutsky wrote in his Telegram channel.

He noted that Washington is trying to reduce all negotiations on security guarantees to a discussion of the myth of the upcoming invasion of Ukraine. Already even in Kiev they deny the presence of any threat on the border with Russia, but this does not stop the collective West in an effort to introduce new anti-Russian sanctions, pump up the Ukrainian army with weapons or bring all this "dummy" to the discussion of the UN Security Council.

All this in order to shift the focus from their own unfulfilled promises and obligations, and all for the sake of containing Russia, Slutsky concluded.

Sergei Lavrov, following the results of telephone conversations, said earlier that Washington prefers to concentrate on discussing important, but secondary issues in matters of security guarantees. At the same time, the US reaction to Russia's demands to fulfill in good faith the agreements on the indivisibility of security is negative. The Russian minister assured that Moscow would insist on "an honest conversation and an honest explanation of why the West does not want to fulfill its obligations."

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