Draft agreements on security guarantees proposed by Russia are not an ultimatum as ill-wishers call it, Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
"Everybody is discussing them now. Certainly, this is discussed by the armed forces in the first instance - drafts of our treaties and agreements sent to leaders of the United States and NATO on strategic stability support issues," the head of state said.
"We already see that some of our ill-wishers, let me say directly, are interpreting them [drafts] as an ultimatum from the Russian side. Is it an ultimatum or not? Certainly not," Putin noted.
The President recalled the US’ actions in prior years, when they supported their alleged interests and their alleged security thousand miles away from their national territory. "They did the toughest and the most blatant things without any sanction from the US Security Council," the Russian leader added.
Russia is ready to take military-technical measures, if NATO expands close to its borders, Putin said.
"In case of clearly aggressive policy continued by Western colleagues, we will take adequate military-technical measures and respond toughly to unfriendly steps," the Russian president warned.
As Putin stressed, Russia "has the full right" to measures intended to ensure its security and sovereignty.
As the Russian president emphasized, Moscow does not demand any special exclusive terms for itself. "Russia stands for equal and indivisible security in the entire Eurasian space," Putin said.
Russia calls for resolving disputes by political means, Putin said.
"Armed conflicts and bloodshed are not our choices, absolutely. We do not wish this march of events.
We wish to address issues by political and diplomatic means, provided we have clear and well-formulated legal guarantees," Putin said at the Defense Ministry’s board meeting.
He pointed out that this was the gist of Russia’s proposals for security guarantees, addressed to the United States and NATO.
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