NATO started to discuss its new strategy
BRUSSELS. September 29. KAZINFORM NATO has started to discuss its new strategy, alliance spokesman James Appathurai told a Tuesday press briefing; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
The document will define the alliance's priorities of the next decade. It sums up security threats to NATO member countries and suggests ways of their deterrence. The NATO Lisbon summit of November 19-20 may approve the strategy.
The NATO Council is giving the final touch to the document, which NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen drafted in summer on the basis of a report of the Group of Wise Men led by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright.
Moscow is particularly interested in the role the alliance attaches to NATO-Russia relations.
"We would like to hope that the draft of Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen and the final document to be approved in Lisbon will do away with the ambiguities of the Group of Wise Men's report concerning Russia," Russian Permanent Representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told Itar-Tass earlier.
The report stressed the need for partnership with Russia and the necessary degree of security of NATO East European members.