Agenda of NATO meetings in Brussels includes Afghanistan, relations with Russia, Georgia, upcoming NATO summit
BRUSSELS. Dec 3 (Interfax) - The agenda of a series of meetings of foreign ministers, which start at the NATO headquarters on Tuesday, will include the situation in Afghanistan, developing relations of NATO with Russia and Georgia and the upcoming NATO summit.
On the first day the foreign ministers of 28 NATO countries will discuss the agenda of the summit, which is planned for September 4-5, 2014 in Southern Wales in the UK. It has been declared that the summit will be dedicated to the completion of the military operation in Afghanistan, relations of NATO with partners, and enhancing and modernizing NATO military potential.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will attend the ministerial meeting on December 4, which includes topics that were on the agenda of the relations with Russia for a long time, a high-level NATO official said.
The situation in Syria and the program of destroying Syrian chemical weapons, the state of affairs in Afghanistan amid the approaching withdrawal of NATO's military presence there and the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking are among the topics.
