Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger admitted that the US promised the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO to the East, but only verbally.
According to the politician, there were no official commitments stipulated in the written agreements, it was a personal promise of the then head of the State Department, James Baker.
“I know it's true, but it's never been written down. So we are right in saying that there was no official commitment," Kissinger said.
Earlier, the former US Secretary of State stated that European countries are against Ukraine joining NATO. The politician added that the opponents of Ukraine's entry into the alliance explained that this "issue requires careful study".
