{"id":3735,"date":"2024-05-10T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T23:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geostrategy.club\/2024\/05\/10\/the-russian-2009-fourteen-points-for-the-european-security-why-the-proposal-was-rejected\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T08:09:30","slug":"the-russian-2009-fourteen-points-for-the-european-security-why-the-proposal-was-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geostrategy.club\/zh\/the-russian-2009-fourteen-points-for-the-european-security-why-the-proposal-was-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian 2009 \u201cFourteen Points\u201d for the European Security: Why the Proposal Was Rejected?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovi\u0107<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2009, Russian President Medvedev (President from May 7th<\/sup>, 2008 to May 7th<\/sup>, 2012) called for a new European security policy known as \u201cFourteen Points\u201d as a new security treaty to be accepted to maintain European security as the ability of states and societies to maintain their independent identity and functional integrity (this Russian draft European security treaty was originally posted on the President\u2019s website on November 29th<\/sup>, 2009). This treaty proposal was passed to the leaders of the Euro-Atlantic States and the executive heads of the relevant international organizations such as NATO, EU, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and the Organization of Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). In this proposal, Russia stressed that it is open to any democratic proposal concerning continental security and is counting on a positive response from Russia\u2019s (Western) partners.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, not so surprisingly, D. Medvedev\u2019s call for a new European security framework (based on mutual respect and equal rights) became interpreted particularly in the USA in the fashion of the Cold War 1.0, in fact, as a plot to pry Europe from its strategic partner (USA). Nevertheless, this program in the form of a proposal was the most significant initiative in IR by Russia since the dismissal of the USSR in 1991. From the present perspective, this proposal could save Ukrainian territorial integrity but it was rejected primarily due to Washington\u2019s Russophobic attitude.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, Moscow since 1991, and particularly since 2000, viewed NATO as a Cold War 1.0 remnant and the EU as no more but only as a common economic-financial market with many crisis management practices. Nevertheless, Medvedev\u2019s 2009 \u201cFourteen Points\u201d was announced on November 29th<\/sup>, 2009 Russia published a draft of a European Security Treaty. Medvedev\u2019s program resembles the program drawn up by US President Woodrow Wilson (issued on January 8th<\/sup>, 1918), who had emancipated peace aims in his well-known \u201cFourteen Points\u201d. These two programs have two things in common: 1) Both documents advocate multilateralism in the security area and devotion to international law; and 2) They are very idealistic in terms of the tools needed for their implementation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Russian proposal from 2009 is founded on existing norms of international security law according to the UN Charter, Declaration on Principles of International Law (1970), and the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (1975) followed by the Manila Declaration on the Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes (1982) and the Charter for European Security (1999).<\/span><\/p>\n

The 2009 Russian proposal on European Security (ten years after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia) can be summarized in the following six points:<\/span><\/p>\n