Each participant in the 46th annual International...

This is true of the NATO countries, the hosts of the conference, and the foreign ministers of China, Iran, Russia and other countries represented.

The British Financial Times, in an effort to sound like an international newspaper, summed up the results of the Munich conference by saying that NATO is seeking partners in its Central Asian policy, that is, in Afghanistan. This statement does not sound very similar to the assessment by Moscow, Washington or Tehran, for that matter.

In effect, this is the main outcome of Munich-2010. Previously, the Western countries mostly discussed security within their own circle, making rare attempts to listen mistrustfully to others (for instance, Vladimir Putin in 2007). Now they are making attempts to erode the borders between the West and the non-West, albeit without much success.

For Russia, the proposed treaty on European security was pivotal at the conference. President Dmitry Medvedev presented this initiative as a broad

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