Borrell doesn't think it's crazy to overhaul security architecture

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. File photoBRUSSELS, Jan 17The EU agrees that the European security structure should be reviewed, but it is necessary to change the agenda of negotiations and increase the number of participants, said the head of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell, speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee. meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU, from today we will prepare our proposals. We should have ready proposals in case they are needed, on the security architecture,» Borrell said. The EU will prepare its own proposals for security in EuropeHe stressed that since the 70s of the last century, «a lot has changed, including with regard to the security architecture of Europe, for example, the USSR no longer exists.» «Revision of the security architecture is not crazy idea, it can be done in a way that suits everyone. If it is about this, if this is the goal of Russia, then it is necessary to change the agenda and increase the number of participants in the process of revising the security architecture,» Borrell said. At the end of 2021 Russia has published draft treaties with the United States and agreements with NATO on security assurances. Moscow, in particular, demands from its Western partners legal guarantees of refusing further expansion of NATO to the east, from joining the bloc of Ukraine and from creating military bases in post-Soviet countries. On January 10, Russia and the United States held a new round of dialogue on strategic stability in Geneva. It was followed by a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels. It was followed on Thursday, January 13, by consultations at the Vienna site of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The main focus of these discussions was the security proposals that the Russian side presented to the US and NATO at the end of last year against the background of the escalation of the crisis in Ukraine. January, 08:43InfographicDraft Security Assurance Agreement between Russia and NATOInfographicView