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NATO deceived Russian federation about expansion and a British document proves information technology, pinnacle German language weekly discovers

A newly discovered certificate from March 1991 shows United states of america, UK, French, and High german officials discussing a pledge fabricated to Moscow that NATO would not expand to Poland and beyond. Its publication by the High german magazine Der Spiegel on Friday comes equally expansion of the United states-led bloc has led to a military standoff in Eastern Europe.

The minutes of a March 6, 1991 meeting in Bonn between political directors of the foreign ministries of the United states, Uk, France, and Germany contain multiple references to "2+4" talks on German unification in which the Western officials made it "articulate" to the Soviet Union that NATO would non push into territory east of Germany.

"We fabricated it clear to the Soviet Union – in the two+4 talks, as well equally in other negotiations – that we do not intend to benefit from the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe," the certificate quotes US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada Raymond Seitz.

"NATO should not aggrandize to the east, either officially or unofficially," Seitz added.

A British representative also mentions the existence of a "general agreement" that membership of NATO for eastern European countries is "unacceptable."

"We had made it clear during the 2+4 negotiations that nosotros would not extend NATO beyond the Elbe [sic]," said W German diplomat Juergen Hrobog. "We could not therefore offering Poland and others membership in NATO."

The minutes later on clarified he was referring to the Oder River, the boundary between East Deutschland and Poland. Hrobog further noted that Westward German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher had agreed with this position too.

The document was found in the Uk National Athenaeum by Joshua Shifrinson, a political science professor at Boston University in the Usa. Information technology had been marked "Secret" but was declassified at some point.

Shifrinson tweeted on Friday he was "honored" to work with Der Spiegel on the document showing that "Western diplomats believed they had indeed made a NATO not-enlargement pledge."

"Senior policymakers deny a non-expansion pledge was offered. This new document shows otherwise," Shifrinson said in a follow-up tweet, noting that "beyond" the Elbe or Oder by any standard includes Eastern European countries to which NATO started expanding just viii years after.

During a major press conference in December 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the West had promised the Soviet Union NATO would not expand "a unmarried inch" to the east, but "brazenly deceived" and "cheated" Moscow to do just that.

Responding to these comments, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the brotherhood "has never promised not to aggrandize." In an interview with Der Spiegel afterwards, Stoltenberg repeated that "there has never been such a promise, there has never been such a behind-the-scenes deal, it is simply not true."

NATO admitted Poland, Republic of hungary, and Czechia in March 1999, but earlier launching an air war against Yugoslavia without the permission of the UN Security Council. This put NATO directly on the Russian border – the enclave of Kaliningrad – for the start time ever. The next round of expansion in 2004 included the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Republic of lithuania, placing NATO's eastern borderland but 135 kilometers (84 miles) from St. Petersburg.

In a series of security proposals fabricated public in December, Russia demanded NATO publicly renounce expansion to the sometime Soviet republics of Ukraine and Georgia and withdraw Usa forces to the 1997 boundaries of the bloc, among other things. The Us and NATO have rejected this, arguing the brotherhood's "open door" membership policy is a cardinal principle for them.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/549921-nato-expansion-russia-document/

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