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Lavrov pushes for European security treaty

Tags: European security treaty , Politics, Russia, World, News
 
Feb 6, 2010 12:47 Moscow Time
Sergei Lavrov Photo: EPA
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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has outlined Russia’s concept of a European security treaty, proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev in June 2008. Addressing participants in an international security conference in Munich, Lavrov said that if signed the treaty would “help leave behind us the Cold-war mentality, ensure a new quality of mutual trust and enable us to focus more on real, not imaginary threats.”  Saying that the principle of “undivided security” professed by the OSCE was not working, the minister pointed to the 1999 US bombings of Yugoslavia and the 2008 armed conflict in the Caucasus. He said that  with the Cold War over the OSCE had every chance to become a full-fledged organization but, very unfortunately, it was decided to  expand NATO eastward which not only preserved the existing division lines in Europe but even moved them further to the East.  

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