Press briefing by Amb.#Polyanskiy ✅Russia🇷🇺-US🇺🇸 relations ✅#NATO ✅Mali🇲🇱 ✅#NPT Review Conference ✅Syria🇸🇾 ✅Belarus🇧🇾 ✅China🇨🇳 ✅#JCPOA ✅UNSC membership and many other topics. Full script available at 🔗https://t.co/QQm65sPPF1 https://t.co/yK5LiyqmSt

#US🇺🇸 attempts to shift responsibility for the current Afghan crisis look particularly disingenuous, as well as their claims that other countries need to recover #Afghanistan🇦🇫 after 20 years of presence of #NATO contingent. https://t.co/HG2hNvG9O3

#Nebenzia: 🇺🇸tries to connect alleged tension at 🇷🇺🇺🇦 border to Russia-initiated talks on ensuring legally-binding security guarantees for our country. They seek to create an impression that #Moscow allegedly built up tension to “exchange” it for concessions from US & #NATO. https://t.co/zgWdNavybv

#Nebenzia: But our security-related demands're much broader. #Ukraine’s non-accession to #NATO and non-deployment of foreign troops at 🇺🇦territory are only a small part of much-needed arrangements that could considerably improve the military & political situation in #Europe and🌍 https://t.co/L8RWoJzUzc

#Nebenzia: The European security does not boil down to the situation in 🇺🇦. It's a broader issue. It's wrong to link our proposals on security guarantees and the security architecture that we made to the #US and #NATO and discussed with them already with the situation in Ukraine. https://t.co/TancF4Q024

#Nebenzia: 🇺🇦 is being massively supplied with weapons, and these are not just defensive weapons. #NATO countries are supplying those weapons and openly admitting that, although it, by the way, contradicts the Minsk Agreements as well. https://t.co/xg9nOgXVVp

#Polyanskiy: As we stressed at a recent #UNSC meeting, there are approximately 175,000 🇺🇸military personnel deployed outside the #UnitedStates. We cannot but be concerned over it and the fact that #NATO military infrastructure is getting closer to our borders. @mfa_russia https://t.co/KR0T2gWEwU

Today FM #Lavrov spoke via VTC w/ @antonioguterres to exchange opinions on pressing global issues (Syria, Libya, the activity of @UNMIKosovo ), i.a. in the context of🇷🇺UNSC Presidency. Minister #Lavrov informed the SG of Russia's talks with #NATO and #OSCE on security guarantees https://t.co/4WSxs8kLq8

#Polyanskiy on the situation on 🇷🇺🇺🇦border: We're not new to this kind of allegations. But the scope of these allegations now is something remarkable. I can only link it to the fact that we addressed a clear requirement to #NATO & #US regarding long-term #security guarantees. https://t.co/mTQm4WqkAJ

#Vershinin: CSTO repeatedly addressed #NATO offering cooperation. A relevant proposal for cooperation on Afghanistan🇦🇫 was put on the table back in the day.2⃣years ago #CSTO foreign ministers suggested building mutual confidence & cooperation. The proposals were left unanswered. https://t.co/CCSepsK7Tx

#Nebenzia: For us, Ukraine’s accession to NATO is a “red line”, first of all due to military and strategic considerations. Placement of NATO infrastructure on #Ukrainian soil would make us retaliate which would inevitably put #Russia and #NATO on the verge of #conflict. https://t.co/Rso3fM9pXX

#Nebenzia: We are neighboring #NATO countries and that was the result of cheating by our Western partners who, when the Berlin Wall collapsed, told us that they wouldn't move beyond the borders of the former GDR. And our naive leadership at that time opted to believe them. https://t.co/36stsyxDMG