Medvedev received Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in the Kremlin, where they discussed common European security, especially in the face of U.S. plans to deploy missile defense in Central Europe.
The Russian president said "those proposals, which were recently formulated, to hold a pan-European summit to start drawing up a legally binding agreement on European security, could be useful."
Medvedev first voiced the idea to sign a legally binding European security treaty at a pan-European conference during his official visit to Germany in early June.
He said then that any new security arrangements should be based on "pure" national interests, not skewed by ideological motives. He added that "organizations operating in the Euro-Atlantic region" should also have the opportunity to join.
Moscow has strongly opposed the possible deployment by the U.S. of 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic as a threat to its security and nuclear deterrence. Washington says the defenses are needed to deter possible strikes from "rogue states."
Washington and Prague signed a nuclear missile deal on July 8, 2008.
