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Russian diplomat Alexei Drobinin raised possible bilateral pacts with individual NATO countries as an option for European security arrangements discussed within the Ukraine peace process.
Russia could conclude mutual non-aggression pacts with individual NATO members, Russian Foreign Ministry diplomat Alexei Drobinin said, according to UNIAN, citing Reuters. He presented the pacts as one possible element of a new European security framework.
Drobinin said discussions in Abu Dhabi covered several options: a collective defence alliance or bilateral mutual assistance agreements; political agreements against helping each other's adversaries in the event of aggression; and bilateral mutual non-aggression pacts.
He suggested that individual NATO members could receive additional security guarantees from Russia under the third option. The UNIAN report did not name prospective countries or report their agreement to such pacts.
Vladimir Medinsky, the head of Russia's negotiating team, also described a new European security system as a key topic of the two-day Abu Dhabi talks, without giving details. The report described possible arrangements, rather than signed agreements, and did not specify the dates of the talks or Drobinin's statement.
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