State Department: talks between the delegations of Russia and the United States on security in Geneva ended

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Negotiations on guarantees of security and strategic stability between the delegations of Russia and the United States ended in Geneva. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the State Department.

As the official representative of the State Department clarified, in total, the discussion between the officials of the two countries lasted about 7.5 hours. The talks were held behind closed doors, without journalists, at the US Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva.

It is noted that in the process the parties were interrupted only for a short lunch.

The meeting began at 9 am local time. The Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the American one by US First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman. It was assumed that the main topics of the consultations will be the issue of non-deployment of medium and short-range missiles near the Russian borders, the refusal to further expand NATO at the expense of the former Soviet republics and a reduction in the number of military exercises.