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European security architecture
How a settlement written for one era became the subject of a live negotiation.
5 events · Security · Europe
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European security architecture
The current arrangement was assembled in stages rather than designed. Each stage solved the problem in front of it and left the next one to a future negotiation.
Where things standTimeline
A scheduled review is postponed; the working group is kept in place.
Planning assumptions written in the previous decade are formally withdrawn.
An internal costing is released showing a multi-year shortfall.
The first text mentioning explicit guarantees reaches delegations.
Nineteen delegations arrive with three competing drafts.
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