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Friday, June 06, 2008

Medvedev calls for EU-US-Russia peace treaty

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Berlin on Thursday (5 June) called for a new EU-US-Russia security treaty in a conciliatory speech, even as EU diplomats landed in Georgia to help avert the risk of armed conflict on Europe's fringe.

The new deal - a "legally-binding European Security Treaty" - should cover arms control, illegal immigration and poverty, on the model of the 1928 multilateral Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as a foreign policy tool.

The agreement would be negotiated at a European summit including Russia, all of Europe's non-EU states, the US and Canada in order to embrace "the whole Euro-Atlantic space from Vancouver to Vladivostok."

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