BRUSSELS, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and NATO
hope to resume military cooperation after high-level talks in
Greece later this month, Russia's NATO envoy said Friday.
"All the delegations hope a decision will be made to
resume military cooperation," Dmitry Rogozin said after a
Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels.
The foreign ministers of NATO member countries and Russia
will meet in Corfu, Greece, on June 27, the first high-level
talks since last August's war between Russia and Georgia, after
which contacts were frozen.
Russia and NATO had planned to hold the meeting in May,
but Moscow delayed it after the military alliance expelled two
Russian diplomats over a spying scandal. Moscow also strongly
criticized NATO-led military exercises in Georgia last month.
The Russian-NATO Corfu meeting will take place ahead of a
session of foreign ministers of the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on the island.
NATO and Russia have recently taken measures to step up
cooperation on international security, including cargo supplies
to Afghanistan and anti-piracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden.
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