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airspace and outside national territorial waters, from where they can hit targets on the territory of Russia or the United States.
Russia also proposed to return to the principle of refusal to deploy ground-based intermediate and shorter-range missiles outside national territory.
Moscow also considers it necessary to rule out the deployment of nuclear weapons outside the national territory.
The Kremlin announced that it is ready to negotiate with NATO in a "neutral country"
What Russia offered NATO
Moscow proposed to the alliance to conclude an agreement in which it is proposed to return to the work of the Russia-NATO Council, restore communication channels and stop considering each other as adversaries. In nine articles of the document, Russia also considers it necessary to fix the following.
Non-deployment by Russia and NATO countries of their armed forces and weapons on the territory of all other European states, in addition to the forces that were already in this territory as of May 27, 1997.
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.
Exclude further expansion of NATO , including the accession of Ukraine and other states.
The NATO countries must abandon the conduct of any military activity on the territory of Ukraine , as well as other states of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
On November 18, President Vladimir Putin announced Russia's desire to receive security guarantees at a collegium of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the same time, he assigned the diplomatic department the task of preparing Russian proposals. “We need to raise the question of seeking to provide Russia with serious long-term guarantees of ensuring our security in this direction, because Russia cannot exist and constantly think about what may happen there tomorrow, ” Putin explained .
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