NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday that the bloc wished to have an NRC meeting with Russia ahead of the July summit in Warsaw.
"This would help create an atmosphere of transparency. This would bring all the formerly agreed principles – on finding consensus and managing crises – back to life. That is why I support an NRC meeting not just on the level of ambassadors…but on all levels," Harald Kujat, ex-chief of the NATO Military Committee and former inspector general of the German military said.
He added a NATO-Russia summit would signify a "major step toward resolving the problems that we are facing now."
The NRC was created in 2002 as a consultative mechanism. NATO suspended all practical civilian and military cooperation with Russia after the Ukraine crisis broke out in April 2014, although channels for political dialogue and military to military communication remained open.
