A draft treaty on European security prepared...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev put forward the initiative to work out a treaty on European security on June 5, 2008, proposing that the principle of indivisible security be legally sealed in international law, preventing any state or organization from strengthening their security at the expense of others.
"...every Party shall be entitled to consider an armed attack against any other Party an armed attack against itself," says the draft published on the Kremlin website.
"In exercising its right of self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, it shall be entitled to render the attacked Party, subject to its consent, the necessary assistance, including the military one, until the UN Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.
"Information on measures taken by Parties to the Treaty in exercise of their right of self-defense shall be immediately reported to the UN Security Council," it says.