Russia to deliver new security proposal in Brussels July 22

MOSCOW, June 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's proposals for a new National Security Strategy is to be presented at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 22, Russia's envoy to NATO said Monday.

"A high-level expert - one of the leaders of Russia's Security Council - will arrive for that," Dmitry Rogozin said during a video link from Brussels organized by RIA Novosti.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree in May on the National Security Strategy up to 2020.

Rogozin also said that NATO had invited "the Russian envoy to take part on July 7 in a seminar devoted to NATO strategic development issues."

He also said the first meeting between a Russian representative and the newly-appointed NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who takes up the post on August 1, will be held August 11.

"I think at the August 11 meeting he is to outline prospects for his trip to Russia," Rogozin said.

Rogozin said discussions on a Russia's proposal for a European Security Treaty could start in September during a Russia-NATO Council session.

Saturday's informal foreign ministerial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was the first high-level talks since last August's five-day war between Russia and Georgia, after which contacts were frozen. Russia then recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which was attacked by Tbilisi in an attempt to bring it back under central control.

Relations between Russia and NATO have also been frayed in recent years over the military alliance's eastern expansion. Ukraine and Georgia, both former Soviet republics, have applied to join, but their U.S.-backed bids were turned down due to pressure from Germany and France at a 2008 NATO summit in Bucharest.