10The Agreement on partnership and cooperation establishing a partnership between the European Communities and their Member States, of one part, and the Russian Federation, of the other part, signed in Corfu on 24 June 1994 and approved in the name of the European Communities by Council and Commission Decision 97/800/ECSC, EC, Euratom of 30 October 1997 (OJ 1997 L 327, p. 1; ‘the EU‑Russia Partnership Agreement’) contains a Title XI, headed ‘Institutional, general and final provisions’, Article 99 therein providing:‘Nothing in this Agreement shall prevent a Party from taking any measures:(1) which it considers necessary for the protection of its essential security interests:...(d) in the event of serious internal disturbances affecting the maintenance of law and order, in time of war or serious international tension constituting threat of war or in order to carry out obligations it has accepted for the purpose of maintaining peace and international security;...’
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