📖Read remarks by Member of the Delegation Andrey Vorobiev at the IWG Structured Dialogue Meeting on 19 February 2021:
✅🇷🇺shares the view that #StructuredDialogue is an important confidence-building measure aimed at ⬇️of tensions and search for ways to ⬆️ #EuropeanSecurity. It has proved to be a valuable platform for mil contacts, holding an open exchange on threat perception.
✅If we agree that the security situation is of concern, it would be logical to:
🔸⬇️ mil threat,
🔸deescalate the situation,
🔸⬇️ mil confrontation (status quo as of 2014) & mil activities along the 🇷🇺-#NATO border on a reciprocity basis,
🔸re-establish bilateral military contacts,
🔸restore trust and improve the mechanisms for preventing incidents and dangerous military activities.
These issues are also to be discussed at the Structured Dialogue platform.
✅The previous IWG meetings confirmed the importance of discussions between mil representatives on incident ❌ at sea and in the air, as well as dangerous mil activities. We see the value of sharing positive experience in implementing bilateral agreements in this field.
✅Nevertheless, since “hybrid threats” have been mentioned, let me repeat what we stated on many occasions, that this issue, because of its clear confrontational potential, neither is in line with the “Hamburg mandate”, nor is it beneficial to strengthening of the Structured Dialogue as it restrains the progress of this format.
✅🇷🇺Russia is ready to continue its participation in the Structured Dialogue but notes that the conversation will not go well along with the attempts to politicize the discussion and include confrontational issues in the agenda.
🔗For more please access our #Facebook page: https://inlnk.ru/WDLLv.
✅🇷🇺shares the view that #StructuredDialogue is an important confidence-building measure aimed at ⬇️of tensions and search for ways to ⬆️ #EuropeanSecurity. It has proved to be a valuable platform for mil contacts, holding an open exchange on threat perception.
✅If we agree that the security situation is of concern, it would be logical to:
🔸⬇️ mil threat,
🔸deescalate the situation,
🔸⬇️ mil confrontation (status quo as of 2014) & mil activities along the 🇷🇺-#NATO border on a reciprocity basis,
🔸re-establish bilateral military contacts,
🔸restore trust and improve the mechanisms for preventing incidents and dangerous military activities.
These issues are also to be discussed at the Structured Dialogue platform.
✅The previous IWG meetings confirmed the importance of discussions between mil representatives on incident ❌ at sea and in the air, as well as dangerous mil activities. We see the value of sharing positive experience in implementing bilateral agreements in this field.
✅Nevertheless, since “hybrid threats” have been mentioned, let me repeat what we stated on many occasions, that this issue, because of its clear confrontational potential, neither is in line with the “Hamburg mandate”, nor is it beneficial to strengthening of the Structured Dialogue as it restrains the progress of this format.
✅🇷🇺Russia is ready to continue its participation in the Structured Dialogue but notes that the conversation will not go well along with the attempts to politicize the discussion and include confrontational issues in the agenda.
🔗For more please access our #Facebook page: https://inlnk.ru/WDLLv.
💬 🚀 Highlights from Konstantin #Gavrilov’s comments for Russian media on the outcomes of the Conference of States Parties on the consequences of Russia's withdrawal for the OST:
🔸 🇷🇺’s decision to withdraw from the OST is final and currently not subject to revision.
🔸 It is common sense that we could not leave the territory of our country open for observation flights while realizing that that information obtained during these flights is being shared with Washington. It is unacceptable.
🔸 Despite the declared readiness of some States Parties to continue participation in the OST, the Treaty's future without the key states - 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 - seems vague.
🔸 Dismantlement of the Treaty will greately increase the inpredictability of military activities in the Euro-Atlantic region. But Russia, just as the U.S. has a group of satellites that can control any movements of the armed forces both in Europe and accross the ocean.
#RussiaUS #OpenSkiesTreaty #EuropeanSecurity
🔸 🇷🇺’s decision to withdraw from the OST is final and currently not subject to revision.
🔸 It is common sense that we could not leave the territory of our country open for observation flights while realizing that that information obtained during these flights is being shared with Washington. It is unacceptable.
🔸 Despite the declared readiness of some States Parties to continue participation in the OST, the Treaty's future without the key states - 🇺🇸 and 🇷🇺 - seems vague.
🔸 Dismantlement of the Treaty will greately increase the inpredictability of military activities in the Euro-Atlantic region. But Russia, just as the U.S. has a group of satellites that can control any movements of the armed forces both in Europe and accross the ocean.
#RussiaUS #OpenSkiesTreaty #EuropeanSecurity