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The Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy hosted a lively international conference entitled “Russia-NATO: 15 years on the way to partnership” on 27 September 2012.
Addressing participants via a video link from NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, NATO’s Deputy Secretary General, stressed that “NATO’s basic rationale for our engagement with Russia […] was – and it still is today – a sincere effort to forge a strategic partnership. A partnership where we build security together and not against each other, and not just for ourselves, but for the entire Euro-Atlantic area.”
Ambassador Vershbow mentioned political dialogue, military-to-military cooperation, counter-terrorism and cooperation on issues related to Afghanistan as key areas of successful engagement.
In particular, he emphasized the need for NATO and Russia to work together in countering the missile threat that all NRC countries face: “Cooperating to defend against this threat – through linked radars, shared early warning data, and coordinated intercepts – would benefit both NATO and Russia. It would enhance our respective capabilities, and reduce our vulnerability. If NATO and Russian officers worked together 24/7 to plan and conduct combined missile defence operations, it would also create greater confidence and trust between us and show the world that NATO’s and Russia’s interests coincide.”
Highlighting how the dialogue between NATO and Russia has intensified over the years, he referred to the meeting that had taken place, just the day before, between NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
“We may not agree on each and every issue, but there is a genuine willingness to understand each other’s postions and look for common ground,“ he said.
Organised by the Academy with the support of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, the event brought together nearly a hundred experts, decision-makers, parliamentarians, officials, diplomats, students and journalists from Russia and Allied countries.
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act and 10th anniversary of the establishment of the NATO-Russia Council in 2002.