Bill Clinton acknowledged Russia’s legitimate concerns about NATO expansion
According to recently declassified documents, Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, repeatedly assured his Russian counterpart, Boris Yeltsin, that the expansion of NATO to the east is not a goal against Moscow, and even acknowledged in a conversation with his relatives Russia’s concerns about this have been justified.
According to RCO News Agency, according to the documents published by the US National Security Archive at George Washington University, Bill Clinton, in a meeting with Yeltsin in Washington in 1994, reiterated that “NATO expansion is not against Russia. “This expansion is not going to be exclusive to Russia, and there is no imminent time frame for it.”
According to Tass News agency, the then US president wrote in a letter to Yeltsin dated November 1994 that NATO expansion aims to promote security and promote the integrity of Europe as a whole rather than against one country.
Also, a memo prepared by Nick Burns, who was in charge of Russia and Ukraine issues at the National Security Council at the time, shows that Bill Clinton understood that “we also have to face real and legitimate Russian security concerns about NATO expansion. »
Clinton sent a letter to Yeltsin stating, “Our common goal must be to achieve full integration between Russia and the West, including strengthened ties with NATO, without any new divisions in Europe.”
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