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Reforming of European security system will not end into creation of radically new institutes: Director of European Policy Centre

Politics Materials 21 February 2009 08:47 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 20 / Trend , E.Ostapenko /

Reforming of the European security system should be adjusted and adapted to existing international organizations, so that to respond to new threats and challenges. However, reforming will not end into creation of radically new institutions, a leading analyst of the European Union Antonio Missiroli said.

"I don't think that reforming the organizations like NATO would end into something radically new," Director of European Policy Centre in Brussels Missiroli said to Trend over phone.

Discussions to revising existing European security system have been extended recently. This theme became a major issue of discussions in the winter session of the Organization for Safety and Cooperation in Europe

(OSCE) parliamentary assembly.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko discussed the proposal that was made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last summer. The proposal says the necessity to restructure the European security system. Grushko called Europe to revise the agreement on security in the European Atlantic region saying that this because of organizations created during the Cold War can not cope with tensions in the contemporary Multi polar world.

Missiroli believes that there is no need to wipe out or delete what exists. Work is rather difficult to get rid of international organizations. They are sort of life for their own, also practically, legally and some sort of.

We should start from what more we need and look at what we have and see if that could be adapted to what we need, Missiroli said.

"Nobody in Western or Central Europe today wants to get rid of NATO as it is," he added.

NATO was established by the Washington Treaty of 1949 to ensure the security of European countries and the United States from the Soviet threat during the Cold War between the democratic West and Communist Soviet Union. The OSCE is an institution established after the Cold War, but also unable to cope with the threats of the modern world.

Missiroli considers the debate on reforming the European security system as strange, but Russia's offer as evasive, as "nobody knows what this new Security Structure in Europe should be like, who should be part of it, what would be the task".

"So far from the Russian side nothing is really clear. Therefore, we think about what we have at the moment and try to learn from this maximum. We want to keep this Treaty [the treaty to establish the North Atlantic Alliance]".

NATO planned small changes which will serve alliance's alternative objectives. In April, France's returning to the alliance will be discussed.

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