Chizhov compared NATO’s approach to security ideas with “beer for the union”

We are talking about the draft European Security Treaty, developed at the initiative of Moscow back in 2008, but rejected by NATO.

NATO’s approach to proposals for legal security guarantees put forward a few years ago can be compared to “beer for union members.” About it in an interview “RIA News” Russia’s Permanent Representative to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov said.

“The documents I mentioned contain political rather than legal obligations. That is why, more than ten years ago, the idea of ​​adopting a European Security Treaty was born in Moscow in order, in particular, to transform the political obligations previously assumed by the leaders of the countries into legal ones. A draft document was created, and we began to seriously discuss it in Brussels and in the capitals,” he said.

However, according to him, the parties failed to move forward on this issue, since NATO considered the Russian proposals unsuitable. “For legal security guarantees are only for members of the alliance. And the rest either let them enter, or be content with less. In general, as in the immortal novel (“The Golden Calf.” — RBC): “Beer – only to members of the trade union,” Chizhov said.

In addition, the permanent representative said that, as with NATO, security agreements within the OSCE are also not working today. “There were agreements within the framework of the OSCE, and there was also practically nothing left of them. In general, from the OSCE, in fact, there was only one shell left, without tangible content, ”he said.