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Russia defends idea of new security plan for Europe
Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:17am EDT
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday defended its proposal for a new security structure in Europe and said it was not aimed at undercutting the U.S.-led NATO alliance, but rather at banishing division on the continent.
The United States and NATO reacted coolly last year to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's call for a new "security architecture" in Europe, arguing that Cold War-era institutions like NATO cannot defuse tensions in a multipolar world.
Many NATO allies appear willing to discuss the proposal but say it cannot work unless Russia gives up what they regard as an old "sphere of influence" approach to security.
"We're not attempting to undermine NATO or any other organization active in the security field," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a conference at the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
"Quite the contrary, we are in favor of coordination and synergies between existing international structures to ensure that no single government (or) organization in the Euro-Atlantic area work against each other," he said through a translator.
"We're not attempting to force anything on anyone. We're only inviting you to negotiations and talks."
OSCE foreign ministers will meet on Corfu, a Greek island, this weekend to weigh this and other European security issues.
NATO EXPANSION CRITICISED
Lavrov said the OSCE should be given greater powers to deal with security problems and criticized Western powers for expanding NATO instead.
Some Western diplomats say Russia is partly responsible for hampering the consensus-based OSCE, whose permanent council comprises 56 countries.
Russia has been hostile to OSCE election monitoring and refused to renew the group's observer mission in Georgia after recognizing as independent states the pro-Russian separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Lavrov told a news conference that some countries had taken an "absolutely unfair" position by saying Russia must withdraw the recognition before further talks on the security proposal.
He said Medvedev mooted the treaty idea in June last year, two months before the brief war in which Russian forces repelled a Georgian attempt to wrest back South Ossetia.
Lavrov said the issue was the main stumbling block for progress on the security treaty talks.
Russia's actions in the region, he said, were to protect citizens and were compatible with Medvedev's proposal, which Moscow says would ensure the security interests of one country do not jeopardize those of others. Continued...
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