Russian Diplomat: Moscow Could Sign Non-Aggression Pacts With Individual NATO Members as Part of a New European Security Framework

Reuters reported on November 11 that Alexey Drobinin, a senior diplomat at Russia's Foreign Ministry, set out three options for a new European security architecture at a security conference in Moscow that day. The third option was bilateral mutual non-aggression pacts, which he said could be concluded with individual NATO member states, giving those countries additional individual security guarantees from Russia.

Drobinin's other two options were a collective defensive alliance and bilateral mutual-assistance agreements of the kind Russia has with Belarus and North Korea. Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's chief negotiator, said the same day that a new European security framework had been the central theme of the two days of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi, though he gave no details of what was discussed.

Several European politicians oppose discussing Europe's overall security architecture before progress is made on issues such as a ceasefire in Ukraine, while U.S. officials have said they are open to such discussion. The Abu Dhabi talks ended on November 11 with Russia and Ukraine agreeing in principle to a large-scale prisoner exchange, but no ceasefire.

Related: Follow-Up: Abu Dhabi Talks End Second Day Without a Ceasefire as Lavrov Rejects European Framework

Source: Reuters

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