The first video of the Geneva meeting, which started on Monday, January 10, appeared. This is the main round of negotiations between the representatives of the United States and the Russian Federation on "security guarantees".

The video was published on the Telegram channel Segodnya_life.

The event is held in a closed format in the U.S. Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva.

The United States delegation is headed by First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the delegation of the Russian Federation is headed by Deputy Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov and Deputy Secretary of Defense Alexander Fomin.

The counterparts meet in a forum called the Strategic Stability Dialogue (SSD).

This meeting is the first of further international negotiations between the West and Russia on the ultimatums on the non-expansion of the North Atlantic Alliance and "strategic stability", put forward by Moscow against the background of the build-up of its troops near Ukrainian borders.

The SSD focuses on arms control and preventing nuclear conflict, and most recently met in July and September. It was relaunched in June following the presidential summit in Geneva, where Presidents Biden and Putin agreed nuclear war "cannot be won and must never be fought."

It will be followed by a number of meetings and negotiations on different security issues.

On Wednesday, January 12 the NATO-Russia Council Meeting will take place in Brussels. All 30 representatives from the NATO alliance and envoys from Russia will meet at NATO's headquarters in Brussels. Deputy Secretary Sherman will also lead the U.S. delegation to this meeting.

The NATO-Russia Council was established in 2002 as a forum for information exchanges between the security alliance and Moscow, though its work was largely suspended after Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. The Council has met a handful of times since then but has been stalled since July 2019 amid worsening relations – which were further strained in October 2021, after NATO expelled w

On Thursday, January 13 OSCE Permanent Council Meeting will be held in Vienna.

In December 2021, U.S. and Russian Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin held two rounds of personal negotiations, during which it was agreed to delegate further discussion of Moscow's claims, which in Russia are called agreements on "security guarantees".