Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, US Assistant Secretary of State Philip Gordon and US ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder met in Moscow today to discuss preparations for next month's NATO-Russia summit.
"The meeting focused on the work of the NATO-Russia Council, primarily the preparations for the forthcoming summit in Lisbon," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The officials also discussed pressing issues surrounding US-Russian political dialog, including missile defense, the CFE (Conventional Armed Forces in Europe) treaty and joint assessment of major security risks and challenges.
President Medvedev accepted his invitation to attend the NATO meeting in Lisbon (Nov. 19-20) during last week’s “troika” summit in the French seaside town of Deauville. There, the Russian leader discussed European security with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Although many issues were touched upon in Deauville, Medvedev’s proposal for a new European Security Pact, which he first floated in April 2009, was greeted with “considerable interest,” according to one senior Russian diplomat who spoke on the sidelines of the summit.
