Wikileaks - 08USNATO393

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/23/2018 
TAGS: NATO, PREL, GM, RS 
SUBJECT: RUSSIANS PROVIDE EUROPEAN SECURITY PAPER TO EU-3 

Classified By: CDA W.S. Reid for reasons 1.4 (b), (d). 

1. (S/NF) The following document was provided to us 
unofficially by a staffer in the Private Office of NATO 
Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer (strictly protect). 
According to the Private Office, the document was initially 
provided by the Russians to the EU-3. Germany, in turn, 
shared it with the Secretary General only. It is not in 
circulation at NATO formally. 

2. (S/NF) Commment: This document is more remarkable for how 
it has been handled than for its content -- which is a rehash 
of ideas we have seen from the Russians many times before. 
The Dutch learned of the documentīs existence and informed 
the SYG, per Private Office sources. He asked the U.S. to 
provide it to him after a request to Germany confirmed the 
documentīs existence, but also a refusal to share it with 
him. When we told him we did not have a copy, he doubted our 
answer and went back to the Germans. At that point the 
Germans briefed De Hoop Scheffer on the document, but they 
still refused to give him a copy. They did tell him, 
however, that three other Allies had it. He took this to 
mean that it was a Quad document, an impression of which 
Germany did not disabuse him. When Germany refused to give 
it to him, he once again asked us for it. When we repeated 
that we did not have such a paper, he reportedly expressed 
doubts about our answer, believing that we were deliberately 
holding out on him. As a result, he went back to the Germans 
a third time, who finally admitted the true source of the 
document. They also eventually provided him a copy of the 
paper, we understand. End Comment 

3. (C/NF) The text of the Russian-drafted European Security 
Paper follows below: 

UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION 

Such Treaty should create in the Euro-Atlantic area a 
reliable collective security system that would provide for 
equal security of all States, stipulate in a legally binding 
manner the foundations of the interaction between its Signing 
Parties - States as well as international organizations - 
with the goal of strengthening peace, enhancing stability and 
providing for security in Europe and in the world as a whole. 

Key thematic elements of such a Treaty: 

-- Basic principles of relations between States, including 
adherence to the implementation in good faith of obligations 
under international law; respect for the sovereignty, 
territorial integrity, political independence and unity of 
States; inviolability of frontiers, possibility of their 
change only in accordance with international law, by peaceful 
means and by agreement; non-interference into internal 
affairs. 

-- Reaffirmation of the principle of inadmissibility of the 
use of force or threat of use of force in international 
relations in any manner inconsistent with the Charter of the 
United Nations. 

-- Unified approaches in the Euro-Atlantic area to the 
peaceful settlement of conflicts with the particular emphasis 
on the priority of negotiated solutions based on the due 
consideration of the positions of the parties and respect to 
the existing international negotiating and peacekeeping 
mechanisms. 

-- Obligations of all States and international organizations 
not to maintain their own security at the detriment to the 
security of others, to observe the principles of equal and 
indivisible security. 

-- Reaffirmation that no State or international organization 
in the Euro-Atlantic area is vested with primary 
responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and 
stability in this region or a right to consider any part of 
it as an area of their exclusive influence. 

-- Basic principles of arms control regime in Europe, 
confidence and security building, restraint and reasonable 
sufficiency in the military development in the Euro-Atlantic 
area. 

-- New quality of cooperation as to counteracting new threats 
and challenges, such as, for example, WMD proliferation, 
terrorism, violent separatism, drug trafficking and other 
kinds of transnational crime. 

-- Affirmation that all States in the Euro-Atlantic area 
would not allow, in the framework of any military union, 
organization or coalition, any actions undermining the unity 
of the Euro-Atlantic security space and that the evolution of 
such military unions, organizations or coalitions would be 
carried out, inter alia, on the basis of respect of security 
interests of every participating State of this Treaty. 
REID 

 2008-10-23 11:45 NATO
PREL (External Political Relations)
GM (Germany)
RS (Wrangel Islands) (Russia)