MOSCOW — President
Vladimir Putin said Tuesday
that Russia's security concerns had been ignored as tensions rage between
Moscow and NATO over Ukraine.
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"We are carefully analyzing the written
responses received from the US and NATO," he told reporters after talks
with Hungarian Prime Minister
Viktor Orban.
"But it is already clear that
fundamental Russian concerns ended up being ignored," Putin said, in his
first significant public remarks in weeks on the crisis sparked by fears of a
Russian invasion of Ukraine.
After Russia put forward sweeping security
proposals, having sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine's border, the
United States late last month delivered a reply in coordination with NATO
allies.
The US rejected Russia's demand to bar
Ukraine from
NATO but offered what it called a new "diplomatic path"
out of the crisis.
"We did not see adequate consideration
of our three key demands regarding the prevention of NATO expansion, the
refusal to deploy strike facilities near Russia's borders, and the return of
the bloc's military infrastructure in Europe to the state in 1997," Putin
said.
"When ignoring our concerns, the US and
NATO point to the right of states to freely choose how to ensure their
security," the Russian leader added.
But, he said, that was just one part of the
security equation.
"The second integral part says that it
is impossible to allow the strengthening of one's security at the expense of
the security of others."
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