MOSCOW. Nov 3 (Interfax) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he had handed proposals to Russia on cooperation in missile defense.
He said at a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday that he had submitted his proposals on how this work could be done, noting that agreement would hopefully be forged.
Rasmussen also said that Russia may have queries on the proposed missile defense system, adding that NATO would not like to force any missile defense architecture on Russia. This issue must be explored jointly, he said.
The Alliance is interested in resuming cooperation with Russia in missile defense, he said.
Russia and NATO have had an experience of cooperating in missile defense previously and holding joint theater missile defense exercises before 2008, he added.
NATO's expansion of theater missile defense to the size of a territorial missile defense system could be the next step, which NATO would like to make jointly with Russia, he said.