UN General Assembly
2014

good examples to emulate, as is the readiness, at last, of Brussels to begin negotiations on establishing a free trade area between the EU and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, as Mr. Putin suggested back in January. Russia has consistently advocated the harmonization of integration projects in Europe and Eurasia. Agreement on political benchmarks and terms such as “convergence of integration” would be a real contribution to the work of the OSCE on the topic of Helsinki+40. Another important aspect of that work would be to launch a pragmatic, de-ideologized conversation on politico-military architecture in the Euro-Atlantic area, so that not only members of NATO and of the Collective Security Treaty Organization but all the countries of the region, including Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, would enjoy equal and indivisible security and not have to make a false choice of “either with us, or against us”. New dividing lines must not be allowed in Europe, especially because in the context of globalization they could become a