In Moscow, an unnamed source told TASS that any dialogue between Russia and NATO is out of the question. “Any dialogue with NATO as an organization is out of the question now, given the current developments,” the source said. “It’s to the point that when representatives of NATO as an organization appear at universal international platforms, we will demand that they should not be there,” he said, further remarking that an exception could only be made for specific platforms such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Forum for Security Cooperation.
According to the source, Russia “should not be expected” to make “a conceptual return” to the proposals on security guarantees that it sent to the United States and NATO on Dec. 15, 2021. “We won’t be the ones to do it,” he noted. “The reason is that if we do, the need will arise to update the position, which cannot be updated because everything depends on how the situation on the ground unfolds during the special military operation,” the source explained, referring to the Russian operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. (https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1790809/ )
