Russia Has Already Been Promised that NATO Would Not Expand to the East, and Then the Alliance Did It 5-6 Times, Peskov Said
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Russia's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, stated that there was a need to document NATO's commitment not to further expand eastward. Peskov recalled that Western countries had already promised not to expand North Atlantic Alliance, TASS. "It was in Gorbachev's time, Yeltsin. NATO has since expanded five or six times east. So, of course, such important words should be behind our actions to actually document NATO's non-enlargement," noted Peskov in…
Russia insists that NATO's policy of non-expansion to the east be officially enshrined in a document. This was stated by the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov in a commentary for Channel One. According to him, Moscow has already received assurances that the military alliance will not move east. Peskov linked these assurances to the periods of rule of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the first Russian president Boris Yelts…
Russia does not have enough oral assurances about NATO's non-enlargement to the East, says President Dmitry Peskov's press secretary. "Of course, such important words for us should be followed by action to document NATO's non-enlargement," he said in an interview with Channel One.
NATO ' s refusal to expand further eastwards must be documented, as previous oral promises, in Moscow ' s view, have never been fulfilled, as Russian President Dmitry Peskov ' s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, stated in the First Channel ' s commentary.
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