Russian President Dmitry Medvedev praised Saturday's meeting of the NATO-Russia Council in Portugal's capital.
"All that we wanted to tell each other, but were afraid to earlier, was said today, and this makes me optimistic," Medvedev told journalists after the Lisbon summit.
He called the talks "absolutely constructive" and lauded Portugal for its efforts to create an "open and democratic" atmosphere for the talks.
The NATO-Russia Council meeting was held as part of the two-day NATO summit in Lisbon.
The meeting saw the highest-level talks between the 28-member alliance and Moscow since Russian troops moved deep into Georgia in August 2008 as part of a campaign to defend the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
LISBON, November 21 (RIA Novosti)
