The Russian Foreign Ministry today released two draft documents, one in the form of a treaty between the United States and Russia, the other as a treaty between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia.
They are not debating points or suggestions; they are fully drafted as ready-to-sign documents.
Sane heads will see in these two draft documents the starting point for a serious discussion on the kinds of security structures that will provide for the legitimate security concerns for all of the nations concerned. The trans-Atlantic war party, on the other hand, will reject the drafts as contradicting the ideology of their unipolar world outlet.
Both documents draw from the principles found in earlier international treaties, including the UN Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act, among others. The principles cited include recognizing the authority of the UN Security Council as having primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of any state. It also reaffirms “that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought,” and recognizes “the need to make every effort to prevent the risk of outbreak of such war among States that possess nuclear weapons.”
Among other things, the U.S.-Russia draft treaty prohibits military activities of any kind “where such deployment could be perceived by the other Party as a threat to its national security, with the exception of such deployment within the national territories of the Parties.” This includes the flying of non-nuclear and nuclear-capable heavy bombers as well as surface warships where they can attack targets on the territory of the other party. (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en)
