Reuters: Russia proposes non-aggression pacts with individual NATO countries

At a security conference in Moscow, senior Russian Foreign Ministry diplomat Alexey Drobinin outlined three potential formats for a new security architecture in Europe. 

According to Reuters, these include bilateral non-aggression pacts with individual NATO member states, which would receive additional security guarantees from Russia.

"For example, agreements of this kind could be reached, among other things, with individual NATO member states, which would then receive, for instance, additional, individual security guarantees from the Russian Federation," Reuters quotes Drobinin as saying.
The publication notes:

•  The first option proposed is a collective defense alliance or bilateral mutual assistance agreements, similar to those Russia has with Belarus and the DPRK;

•  The second is a set of political arrangements involving a mutual pledge not to support each other’s adversaries in the event of aggression—much like the arrangement Moscow has with Iran;

•  The third consists of bilateral non-aggression pacts.

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