Africa Business Radio

Russia has received a NATO proposal to commence talks on Moscow’s security concerns on Jan. 12 and is considering it.Russia unveiled a wish list of security proposals it wants to negotiate, including a promise NATO would give up any military activity in Eastern Europe and Ukraine The United States and Ukraine say Russia may be preparing an invasion of its ex-Soviet neighbour. Russia denies that and says it is Ukraine’s growing relationship with NATO that has caused the standoff to escalate. It has compared it to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the world came to the brink of nuclear war.President Vladimir Putin says Russia wanted to avoid conflict but needed an immediate response from the United States and its allies to its demands for security guarantees. Moscow says it expects talks with U.S. officials on the subject to start in January in Geneva.