MOSCOW. March 4 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has said that two documents on the format of a full- discussed at the consultations involving NATO Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Gunther Altenburg, which began in Moscow on Monday.
One of the documents was submitted by Russia, the other by NATO, he told journalists during a Monday visit to the State Duma.
Speaking of the format of 20, Ivanov said "it should not simply be a consultative or counseling body as some NATO countries say, its should be an actually functioning body that will draft decisions, make them and jointly fulfill them."
"Such a living, effective body would meet the interests of Russia as well as the NATO countries, and our current efforts are directed towards that," Ivanov said. "A purely cosmetic mechanism changing the Russia-NATO label would hardly satisfy the requirements of the times or meet our interests," he said.