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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited Moscow for meetings on 24 June with President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary of the Security Council Igor Ivanov.
NATOSecretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visited Moscow for meetings on24 June with President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrovand Secretary of the Security Council Igor Ivanov.
Discussionson the development of the NATO-Russia relationship were frank andconstructive. Key themes were a shared determination to enhancepolitical dialogue in the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), to improve theability of Allied and Russian forces to work together, to cooperatemore closely in preventing, combating and managing the consequences ofterrorism and to move forward quickly on a proposed NRC pilot projecton counter-narcotics training for relevant Afghan and Central Asianpersonnel.
The meetings also provided an opportunity forhigh-level exchanges of views on the situations in the Middle East, theBalkans (in particular Kosovo) and Darfur. Moreover, De Hoop Schefferbriefed on NATO's operation in Afghanistan, its training mission inIraq and its ongoing process of transformation.
During hisvisit, the Secretary General had a lively roundtable discussion withkey members of the State Duma and Federation Council. He appealed fortheir support in helping change outdated public perceptions of NATO inRussia, which tend to still reflect outdated stereotypes instead of thereality of today's NATO: an Alliance that has transformed itself sincethe end of the Cold War and is developing a mature relationship withRussia based on pragmatic cooperation and vigorous political dialogue-- even if there is not necessarily agreement on all issues.
Later,in a speech at the Institute of Europe, the Secretary General ,reinforced this message, saying that in spite of all the progress madeover the past four years by NATO and Russia toward building a genuine,sustainable partnership, "public perceptions in Russian, including inmuch of the political elite, do not seem to reflect this reality". Hewent on to emphasise that "NATO is Russia's partner in security, andthis partnership can go as far as the Russian government, andultimately the Russian people are prepared to take it. ... The futureis in your hands, and in the hands of your political leadership. Onlyby taking full advantage of the possibilities we have at our disposalfor real political dialogue and practical cooperation can we leavebehind the suspicions of the past in favour of a common future."