General Makarov to attend Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels.

MOSCOW, May 5 (Itar-Tass) - General Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the
Russian Armed Forces general staff, will take part in a regular meeting of
the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on Wednesday.
The participants in the meeting will consider and approve a plan of
work of the Council's military representatives for 2010 and discuss the
guidelines of Russia-NATO cooperation in 2011, the Russian Defence
Ministry's press service reports.
In addition to that, General Makarov is to hold bilateral meetings
with Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, the chairman of the NATO Military
Committee, and General Ivan Svida, the head of the general staff of the
Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told journalists at the
recent video briefing Moscow-Brussels that the question of creation of a
collective security system involving Russia should be studied by the
military. The Russia-USA format will be the most expedient.
Rogozin said that General Makarov would stay in Brussels for one day.
"He will brief the participants in the meeting to be held at the level of
the chiefs of general staffs on the development of the Russian Armed
Forces and will hold bilateral meetings on anti-missiles defences,"
Rogozin emphasized.
"In fact, the United States and Russia have technologies that will
make it possible to implement a project for the creation of a collective
anti-missile defence system," Rogozin went on to say. He believes that it'
s only Russia and the United States who can conduct a full-scale dialogue
on this subject because they possess the AMD elements.
"The Americans are now suggesting that the AMD plans be implemented
step by step, deploying its elements in the European territory and
justifying it by some challenges and threats," Rogozin stressed.
"We think that this affects our strategic interests," he added.
The previous meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was held on April 20
in the form of a videoconference. Initially, Yuri Baluyevsky, the deputy
secretary of the Russian Security Council, was supposed to travel to
Brussels to brief the ambassadors of 28 NATO member countries on Russia's
new military doctrine. But Baluyevsky had to cancel his trip because
Europe had shut down its airspace following the volcanic eruption in
Iceland.

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