Russia and the United States Hold a New Round of Strategic Stability Dialogue Peskov: Russia opposes endless delays in the dialogue

Source: CCTV news client

On the 10th local time, a new round of The Russian-US Strategic Stability Dialogue was held in Geneva, Switzerland. The two sides held nearly eight hours of consultations behind closed doors, but made no progress on the main issues of the negotiations. According to Russian media reports, on the 11th, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Eskov said that there is no deadline for the Russian-US Strategic Stability Dialogue, but Russia opposes the endless delay of this process.

Peskov said that the Russian-US Strategic Stability Dialogue is not held for the sake of going through the motions. In the current situation, it is important for dialogue to produce results, but there is no result for the time being. He said that Russia and the United States will hold several rounds of talks in the future. He noted that there was no deadline for the talks, but that Russia had only one position, namely, that the endless delay in the process was absolutely not welcome.

On the same day, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zakharova said that for the current Russian-US dialogue process, Russia hopes that the US side can respond to Russia's demands for security guarantees in a timely manner.

In addition, the Russian media also quoted sources as saying that the United States promised to the Russian side that it would report the results of the current round of US-Russia dialogues to the leadership and forward a written reply to the security proposal to Russia next week.

After the end of the Russian-US dialogue on the 10th, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said that NATO's legal guarantees of no further eastward expansion, no deployment of strike weapons on Russia's borders, and NATO's deployment of military forces to the state in 1997 when Russia and NATO signed the basic relations document, which is the core security concern of russia, but Russia does not believe that the United States is willing to make satisfactory decisions on these key issues.