Russia is dissatisfied with NATO's expansion and hopes for new European security architecture, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview, which is to be broadcast on Saturday.

"A new document should be drafted to ensure security in Europe and it should not be aimed against NATO," Medvedev told the state television channel.

The existing set of European security institutions was created in the 1970s and has become obsolete, the president said.

"Unfortunately, security in Europe is not improving... NATO is becoming larger, while security is being split into fragments," Medvedev said.

An efficient mechanism of European security should involve all supranational organizations on the continent, including NATO, the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), he said.

Medvedev proposed the idea of a new European security treaty in Berlin last June. The proposal, which is seen as an effort to reduce the EU's security dependence on the United States, has only received lukewarm response from NATO so far.

(Xinhua News Agency May 16, 2009)