Equality "in a number of aspects"
The Supreme EU representative on foreign policy and security, Javier Solan, the NATO Secretary General from 1995 to 1999. Under him, NATO and Russia signed an agreement on partnership and cooperation in Paris in May 1997, which determined, in particular, the mechanism of relations by the 19+1 formula. Solan, who was on the day of the signing of the Roman Declaration in Moscow, did not hide his satisfaction with what happened.