BRUSSELS. Jan 27 (Interfax) - Military cooperation between Russia and NATO has been resumed in all areas, Russia's envoy to the alliance Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax on Tuesday.
"Today's session of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of General Staff chiefs in Brussels confirmed the complete resumption of military cooperation between Russia and NATO," Rogozin said.
The participants in the Brussels meeting were looking forward to hearing the speech of head of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov, "which was very successful," the Russian official said.
In Brussels, Makarov met with representatives of several NATO member-states and held talks with chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, Rogozin said.
"They met in Moscow recently. And their negotiations today were also highly effective," he said.
Cooperation between Russian and NATO military officials was suspended after the armed conflict in South Ossetia in August 2008. The alliance's member-states accused Russia of "disproportionate use of force" against Georgia and suspended sessions of the Russia-NATO Council at all levels.
Russia responded by freezing a number of joint programs with NATO.
The council's first ministerial session after the 2008 events was held in Brussels on December 4, 2009.