Ned Price, chief of the press service of the U.S. State Department, announced that the U.S.-Russian talks in Geneva within the framework of the dialogue on strategic stability will be limited to bilateral issues, Lenta.ru reported.

According to him, issues related to NATO and the EU will be discussed at other sites.

"Our important principle is not to discuss anything that concerns them without them. We won't discuss topics that concern NATO or Europe, we'll talk about narrow and bilateral issues," Price stressed.

He pointed out that in addition to a U.S.-Russian strategic dialogue scheduled for January 10, there'd be a Russia-NATO Council meeting in Vienna on January 12, followed by talks at the OSCE in Vienna on January 13.

Price stressed that "some of the Russian proposals are bilateral in nature, while some are multilateral," which the U.S. would not discuss with Moscow without the participation of allies.

"However, even with regard to the bilateral format with Russia, we will continue to act transparently with our allies and partners," the State Department spokesman assured.