Lavrov: We are ready to negotiate peace, but not with anyone

Fars News Agency International Group; “We are not against negotiations”, the new statements of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with CBS, stressing that this negotiation will be conducted with those who want justice in the relations between Russia and Ukraine and “seeking to stop the Western policy of using Kiev as a tool.” They are fighting against Moscow.”

Lavrov made these statements in refuting US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s claim in Davos that Russia is against negotiations and said that Russia has always emphasized that it is ready to talk about Any proposal is serious, involving a discussion of “the real situation, its origin and the achievement of a solution”. He stressed that “the solution must guarantee the legitimate and national interests of Russia and the people of Ukraine”. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, in banning talks with Russia, said “Moscow does not see any political will for peace, either in Ukraine or in the West.”

The Russian Foreign Minister, who traveled to New York to participate in the UN Security Council meetings on Ukraine and the West Asia region, in an interview with the American channel, added that since 2007, Moscow or 2008 has been warning Western partners about NATO expansion.

NATO expansion plan since 1949; The yellow color of the countries that want to join includes Ukraine

According to him, “despite all the promises that the NATO alliance made to Boris Yeltsin, the former president of Russia, and Mikhail Gorbachev, The Soviet President had given, five waves of NATO expansion took place until it reached the borders of the Russian Federation in 2021. In the end, he described the West’s promises as “completely invalid”.

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