URGENT: NATO to consider Russia's concerns over its expansion

WARSAW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) - NATO will continue to expand, but will not ignore the concerns expressed by Russia on this issue, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.

Russia's relations with NATO have deteriorated over the military alliance's ongoing eastward expansion and more recently its condemnation of Russian military intervention in Georgia following an attack on South Ossetia by Georgian forces last August.