BRUSSELS, October 15 (RIA Novosti) - Relations between Russia and NATO will be one of the main issues to be discussed at a security conference in the Slovakian capital Bratislava on October 21-22, a NATO spokesman told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
The conference will be held in the run-up to an informal two-day meeting of defense ministers representing the 28 NATO member states, to begin on October 22.
The conference is aimed at establishing a top-level trans-Atlantic security forum to discuss modern threats and challenges.
The participants, among them leading political experts and politicians, will also discuss peacekeeping operations and the alliance's further development, as well as the impact of the global financial crisis on international security.
Speaking at a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace conference, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia and the alliance should restart relations, which collapsed after the August 2008 war between Russia and Georgia.
