প্রকাশ: 13/02/2022
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Joe Biden
that Moscow would review ideas he laid out to address Russia's security demands
in a phone call on Saturday, but that they still did not tackle Moscow's key
concerns, the Kremlin said.
Biden and Putin spoke by phone amid high tension over a
Russian military buildup near Ukraine that has fuelled fears of a looming
invasion. Russia has repeatedly denied any such plans.
In a briefing with reporters, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov
described the call as business-like, but said it had taken place against a
backdrop of "hysteria" in the West about a looming Russian invasion
that he said was absurd.
Ushakov said Biden had asked for the call to take place on
Saturday as a result of the rising hysteria.
"Biden predictably mentioned possible tough
anti-Russian sanctions in the context of the tense situation around Ukraine,
but that was not the focus of his rather lengthy conversation with the Russian
leader," Ushakov said.
He said Biden laid out a number of considerations to address
the array of security demands that Russia made of the West late last year,
including a veto on Ukraine ever joining NATO.
"I will immediately note that the Russian president
reacted in the spirit that the Russian side would carefully analyse the
considerations expressed by Biden and would undoubtedly take them into
account,"
"But unfortunately, and this was said, these
considerations do not touch upon the central, key elements of Russian
initiatives," the Kremlin official said.
Ushakov said Biden's ideas largely repeated the ideas set
out in the U.S. and NATO counter-proposals to Russia's security demands that
were handed over on Jan. 26.
He said Russia had practically finished drawing up its
response to those counterproposals and would announce them soon.
Putin told Biden he thought the West was not putting enough
pressure on Ukraine to implement the Minsk peace agreements on the conflict in
east Ukraine, Ushakov said.
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