NATO seeks aid for Afghanistan in Moscow

RussiaToday 15 December 2009

NATO’s new chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is to arrive in Moscow on Tuesday to seek assistance in Afghanistan and discuss Russia’s proposal for a new European security architecture.

This will be Rasmussen's first visit to Russia as NATO Secretary General since he took up office in August this year.

The trip is seen by many analysts as crucial for rebuilding Moscow-NATO relations, after they were frozen following the conflict in South Ossetia started by Georgia in 2008 (...)