MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. A security system spanning Eurasia, from Minsk to Pyongyang, could replace the system linking Lisbon to Vladivostok, suggested the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, in an interview with Razvedchik (or Scout).

“We once proposed to the West the creation of a common security space from Lisbon to Vladivostok, but they refused,” he noted. “All right, then, we will build a new framework without them, perhaps a new framework stretching from Minsk to Pyongyang,” he added.

Naryshkin recalled that earlier this summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed an initiative to establish a new system of collective security in Eurasia to replace the clearly outdated Euro-Atlantic model. “The concept of creating an equal and indivisible security system across the entire Eurasian continent – free from the military presence of external powers – has already become an important topic in international discussions. It was also a key point raised on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Kazan”, added the head of the SVR.