The parties must make every effort to prevent the danger of a nuclear war, it follows from the draft agreement between Russia and the United States, published on Friday. The document prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry also provides for Washington's obligations to exclude further NATO expansion in the east. The agreement with the alliance itself proposes to exclude the "accession of Ukraine" and even the very possibility of expanding the military bloc. More details - in the material "Gazeta.Ru". The Russian Foreign Ministry handed over to the American side drafts of an agreement between the Russian Federation and the United States on security guarantees and an agreement on security measures for Russia and the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was announced on Friday, December 17, by the press service of the department.

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“The American side was given the necessary explanations of the logic of the Russian approach in a detailed form, and the corresponding arguments were presented. We expect that on the basis of our draft treaty and agreement, the United States will soon enter into serious negotiations with Russia on an issue that is critical for maintaining peace and stability, ”the ministry's release says.

On the treaty with the States ...

In the draft treaty between the Russian Federation and the United States, the parties are invited, in particular, to recognize the following:

"there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed,

the need to make every effort to prevent the danger of such a war between the states possessing nuclear weapons. "

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Further in the text, the full version of which can be found on the resources of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the obligations of the parties are listed.

"The Parties do not use the territory of other states for the purpose of preparing or carrying out an armed attack against the other Party, or other actions affecting the fundamental security interests of the other Party," says Article 3.

Article 4 provides for Washington's obligations to exclude further NATO expansion eastward and refuse to admit the states that were formerly part of the USSR into the alliance.

Recall that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - former Soviet republics - have already joined the North Atlantic Alliance.

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"The United States will not create military bases on the territory of states that were previously part of the USSR and are not members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, use their infrastructure for any military activity, or develop bilateral military cooperation with them," the draft agreement says.

The wording of the next, 5th article looks like this:

"The Parties shall refrain from deploying their military forces in areas where such deployment would be perceived by the other Party as a threat to its national security."

The project also stipulates that Russia and the United States exclude the deployment of nuclear weapons outside the national territory (the parties will also eliminate all existing infrastructure).

... and with NATO

The parties to the treaty of the Russian Federation with the member countries of the North Atlantic Alliance are proposed, in particular, to exclude the deployment of ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles in areas from which they are capable of hitting targets on the territory of other participants (article 5 of the agreement).

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NATO countries, according to Smolenskaya Square, must accept commitments excluding "further expansion of NATO, including the accession of Ukraine, as well as other states."

This point was explained in more detail by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov. In an interview with Interfax, he noted that Moscow is demanding that the alliance withdraw its decision to admit Georgia and Ukraine in the future.

Russia is categorically not satisfied with the upcoming entry of Ukraine into NATO and it intends to fight this, the diplomat noted. “We can discuss the pros and cons, but we demand a clear withdrawal of the well-known decision of the 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest that Ukraine and Georgia will become members of the alliance. This should be canceled, revised, then it will be possible to say that even a small, not comprehensive, but still a step in the right direction has been made, "Ryabkov pointed out, noting that there is no readiness for such a step on the part of the West.

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Willingness to hold negotiations “even tomorrow”

According to him, for this reason, the Russian Foreign Ministry has put in its “comprehensively formulated” proposals addressed to the United States and its allies, a number of issues requiring “urgent solutions”.

Relations between Moscow and Washington have come to a "dangerous line" and steps are needed to reduce confrontation, Ryabkov added. He expressed his readiness to go to negotiations with the United States "even tomorrow."

“We are ready immediately, even tomorrow - in the literal sense of the word tomorrow, Saturday, December 18 - to leave for negotiations with the United States in a third country,” RIA Novosti quotes the diplomat. He admitted that such a meeting could be organized, for example, in Geneva.

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