Defensive alliances or political deals can ensure security — Russian Foreign Ministry

MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. Guarantees of the participants in the Eurasian security architecture, which develop interrelations on the principles of equal and indivisible security, can take different forms - defensive alliances or political agreements, Alexey Drobinin, Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said. "We propose that potential participants in the Eurasian security architecture build their relations with each other, including on the basis of the principle of equal and indivisible security," he said at the International Forum for Ensuring Collective Security. Drobinin said that this means that all the participants acknowledge that they have no hostile intentions towards each other. The specific means of applying the principle of the indivisibility of security may vary, the diplomat noted. These could be de facto defensive alliances with commitments to provide mutual assistance in the event of aggression, as is the case with the CSTO, or bilateral agreements on security guarantees, such as those signed by Russia with Belarus and the DPRK. Alternatively, he continued, these could be political agreements on mutual refusal to support each other’s adversaries in the event of aggression.