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Russia and NATO confirm readiness to foster cooperation

Tags: Fogh Rasmussen , security, Politics, Sergei Lavrov , World, Russia, News
 
Feb 6, 2010 21:09 Moscow Time
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Photo: EPA
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             Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and NATO’s Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen have confirmed readiness to enhance political dialogue and bilateral cooperation. Lavrov and Rasmussen discussed the security issue on Saturday after Lavrov’s report to the Security Conference in Munich. The Russian foreign minister presented President Medvedev’s initiative to sign a pan-European security treaty with a view to shake off bloc thinking and build up trust. In his view, the bombardments of Yugoslavia in 1999 and Georgia’s attack against South Ossetia in August 2008 crossed out the OSCE’s “equal security for all” principle. NATO’s expansion, he said, added to the division of Europe into different security areas and moved them eastward. Russia’s concerns center around US plans to deploy missile defense elements by its borders. On Thursday Rumania agreed to accept American interceptor missiles on its territory and Poland and the Czech Republic may be the next. Pending the deployment of the first ground-based missiles Europe’s coasts will be patrolled by US warships with missiles on board.

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