MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax-AVN) - NATO Secretary General George Robertson will visit Moscow in May 2003, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said.
"We are expecting a visit from Robertson to Moscow in May," Ivanov said after meeting with his French counterpart Michele Alliot-Marie in Moscow on Friday.
Speaking about the development of contacts with NATO, Ivanov said that the defense ministers of NATO and Russia will meet in Brussels in June.
Ivanov said Russia should develop relations with the EU in the sphere of defense and security. "We welcome France's proposal to intensify cooperation on the development of a unified defense and security policy in the EU," he said.
"We would like to step up the representative of the Defense Ministry's work in the EU headquarters," Ivanov said.