BRUSSELS, Jan 17 EU diplomat Josep Borrell has announced that he has been tasked with representing the European Union at all negotiations on the architecture of European security. «The ministers (of defense and the EU Foreign Ministry — ed.) agreed to provide full support to the EU High Representative as a coordinator and the EU representative as a single player in this process,» Borrell said.
Borrell doesn't think security architecture revision is a crazy idea, he stressed the need for the EU to come out with common ground. According to him, EU ministers confirmed that the union «is at a watershed when the EU is being tested as a political player, and not as 27 individual member states.» At the end of 2021, Russia published drafts of a treaty with the United States and an agreement with NATO on security guarantees . 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 establishing military bases in post-Soviet countries. — On January 10, the issue was discussed in Geneva at meetings with the United States, on January 12 — during a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, on January 13 — at the OSCE site. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the United States promised next week to «put on paper» a response to Russia's proposals, a written response from NATO is also expected within a week. Russia, according to Lavrov, needs a specific answer to each article of the documents put forward, the further actions of Moscow and the prospects for resuming negotiations will depend on the response of the United States and NATO. />January 12, 08:43InfographicDraft Security Assurance Agreement between Russia and NATOInfographicView
