Agreements on NATO guarantees of Russian security should be based on the principle that some countries cannot strengthen their security at the expense of others. This was announced to Izvestia by the first deputy head of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, ex-Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergei Kislyak.
“The fundamental things laid down in the proposals of 2009 were and remain relevant to this day. What is being emphasized now in conversations about guarantees of our security is of a more specific nature, but one does not exclude the other. Now I am not involved in the preparation of these documents, and guessing in what form they will be offered to our partners, I think, is a thankless task. But I have no doubts that in one form or another this principle should be included in the agreement, if they are reached, ”the senator said.
Russia proposed to include the principle of “indivisible security” in international law in 2008. Then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev came up with the idea to spell it out in the European Security Treaty (his draft was published on the Kremlin’s website in 2009).
“This is a legal obligation, according to which no state and no international organization in the Euro-Atlantic can strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other countries and organizations,” says the document that the Kremlin sent to the heads of state and international organizations. in the region – NATO, EU, CSTO, CIS and OSCE. However, then this idea did not receive a response.
As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said earlier, Moscow will transmit its proposals on security guarantees to Washington via diplomatic channels by the end of the week. The content of these ideas is still unknown – it is only clear that they are based on Russia’s long-standing demand for NATO to stop expanding to the east – including at the expense of Ukraine. Once again, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with him in early December, stressing that Moscow needed legal guarantees for the non-expansion of the alliance.
More details – in the exclusive material of Izvestia:
“When we are indivisible: what will be the proposals of the Russian Federation on the non-expansion of NATO”
Source: IZ
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