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EU prepared to discuss new European security treaty with Russia
| Feb 8, 2010 09:38 Moscow Time |
The European Union is prepared to discuss in the OSCE framework Russia’s proposal for concluding a new European security treaty, says the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested creating a mechanism to keep the peace in Europe during his visit to Berlin in summer 2008. Catherine Ashton told the recent Munich conference on security that the EU was open for discussing any idea that could boost European security. The proposal has since won support from a number of states. The Foreign Minister of Spain, the currently presiding EU nation, said in the middle of last month that the European Union saw the idea as timely. Other countries, and also the North Atlantic Alliance said they were prepared to take up a treaty, but did not see it as indispensable to sign it at the moment. Russia’s presidential assistant Sergei Prikhodko says no Russia’s foreign partner, including the United States, has rejected the idea of concluding a treaty, but their reaction is cautiously positive.
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