German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attend Russian-German Forum - The Petersburg Dialogue.
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Medvedev Voiced 5 Guidelines for Europe’s Security
Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev has declared five principals that Moscow proposes for the new treaty on Europe’s security. Medvedev made the respective statement at the World Policy Conference in Evian, France, October 8.
According to Medvedev, the recent events in the Caucasus have confirmed the need to conclude a new treaty on Europe’s security, creating through it a common and reliable system of overwhelming security.
The system should be equal for all states, without isolating anyone and without creating any areas of different security levels. It is to unite all Europe and Atlantic under the common game rules. For long years ahead, it is to ensure common guarantees of security in a legally binding way, Medvedev specified.
The proposals of Russia are as follows. First of all, the treaty will confirm basic principles of security and interstate relations in the Europe’s Atlantic Area, including adherence to bona fide fulfillment of international obligations, respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of states as well as all other principles spelled out in the U.N. Charter.
Secondly, the treaty will clearly confirm absolute inadmissibility of using force (or of threatening to use it) in the international relations. The vital thing is that the treaty will guarantee uniformity of interpretation and adherence to those principles, legalizing the unity of approaches.
The guaranteed equal security is the third principle. In this respect, of significance is not to ensure security with sacrifice in security of others; to prevent any actions that could be taken within certain military alliances or coalitions should they weaken the unity of common security area; to prevent any military alliances from developing to the detriment of other parties to the treaty.
The fourth principle is to confirm that no state or organization will have any exclusive rights for maintaining peace and security in Europe. The fifth requirement calls for elaborating basic parameters for control over the weapons and for reasonable sufficiency in the military construction. Cooperation in proliferation of mass destruction weapons, terrorism, drug traffic should advance to a new level, Russia’s president said.
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