The post-Soviet security group Collective...

In 2008, the UN and NATO had secretly signed a cooperation agreement without all UN member states reading the draft, triggering a backlash from Russia.

Russia"s envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, accused Ban of acting beyond his powers and pointed to a discrepancy between the preface and the body of the document, saying Moscow could not consider the document legitimate and would view it as reflecting the UN chief"s personal opinion. He added that the document was related to Afghanistan.

In 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised to make a worthy competitor to NATO. Russia prepared a draft treaty on European security which was open for signing "by all states of the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian space from Vancouver to Vladivostok" as well as by the EU, NATO, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), CSTO, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Kommersant daily said UN and CSTO leaders Ban Ki-Moon and Nikolai Bordyuzha would sign

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