Revitalized military cooperation
NATO and Russia agreed on a framework for military-to-military cooperation at their Council meeting in Brussels on Tuesday.
The meeting that continues today is the first in the Military Committee of the NATO-Russian Council since the relations were broken after the Georgian-Russian conflict in August 2008.
Both Russia’s Chief of Defence General Nikolai Makarov and the Chairman of NATO’s Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola participated at the session.
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All 29 members of the Council participated and exchanged views on the way ahead for practical activities in the field of logistics, combating terrorism, search and rescue at sea and counter piracy, according to a news release posted at NATO’s web-portal.
The next meeting in the Military Committee of the NATO-Russia Council will take place in May 2010.
