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Closer cooperation with Russia should become...
"NATO has sought to create security and stability throughout eastern Europe", while Russia "has sown discord and instability in places such as Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia in order to increase its influence and prevent further encroachment by NATO."NATO froze ties with Russia following the August 2008 armed conflict with Georgia and the recognition by Moscow of Georgia"s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
However, Russia-NATO ties have improved in recent months as a result of a course towards "resetting" thorny relations between Moscow and Washington taken by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama.
The report said that the ability of NATO and the United States to collaborate with Russia "will depend heavily on how Russia understands the "reset" of relations sought by the Obama administration."
Pointing to Russia"s position over tougher sanctions against Iran, which is suspected by Western powers of attempting
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