(ANSA) - BELGRADE, SEP 1 - Eleven EU countries—Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, and Sweden—sent a non-paper document to High Representative Kaja Kallas and the remaining member states. In this document, they outline, ahead of tomorrow's informal Foreign Affairs Council, five principles for overcoming the excessive use of the veto on foreign and security policy issues, including "increasingly resorting to constructive abstentions" to avoid "obstructionist behaviour." The document, seen by ANSA, recalls the spirit of sincere cooperation enshrined in the EU Treaties, and advises against obstructively linking a decision in these areas "to matters essentially unrelated to the subject matter" and raising objections "only to aspects related to such a proposal." It also encourages the High Representative to explore the Treaties' options for improving the decision-making process in foreign and security policy, which could include "proposals by the High Representative in accordance with the Treaties." Finally, if a decision on foreign or security issues must be adopted by qualified majority, and each Member State has the right to object "for vital and declared reasons of national policy," as provided for in the Treaties, it calls for "these reasons to be set out in detail, in order to allow for meaningful consultation and facilitate efforts to find a solution acceptable to all Member States." The document was also delivered to the foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Slovenia. (ANSA).