18 December 2016, 01:56 GMT
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) – The parties are holding a closed-door meeting. Following the council, a video address of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is expected to be released.
The agenda of the council comprises the issues of European security, the situation in Ukraine and others.
The NRC was created in 2002 as a consultative mechanism. On April 1, 2014, NATO decided to suspend cooperation with Russia over the Ukrainian crisis.
The first NRC meeting since the bilateral relations' deterioration at the level of permanent envoys, took place on April 20, 2016 but failed to yield any significant results due to the sides’ disagreement on a number of geopolitical issues. One more meeting of the Council at the ambassadorial level was held in the Belgian capital of Brussels on July 13.
