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For Min 'Cannot Accept' EU Response To Lavrov Security Demands-IFX

RUSSIA

Russia's state-run Interfax reporting that the country's foreign ministry has stated that it 'cannot accept' the EU and NATO responses to a letter from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov detailing Russian demands of security guarantees delivered to each of the 27 EU members in January.

  • Lavrov had said that a collective response to the letter would lead to a breakdown in talks.
  • The action of sending the missive to each member state has been viewed as an attempt to drive a wedge between EU member states, with significant differences of opinion evident regarding the scale of sanctions the bloc could place on Russia in the event of an invasion of Ukraine.

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