NATO foreign ministers met Friday with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the framework for a joint missile defence shield, the Libya crisis and a helicopter trust fund for Afghanistan, DPA reported.
"We have a shared goal of defending our populations from the threat of ballistic missiles," said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the start of the meeting in Berlin.
"We have to agree on how the future framework for missile defence cooperation between NATO and Russia should look," he added. The talks follow an agreement reached at NATO's Lisbon summit in November.
The ministers' agenda included an exchange of views on Libya and the international response to the crisis, and the establishment of a fund to support the Afghan military's Russian-made helicopters.
"It will provide training, spare parts and tool kits for three squadrons of Afghan helicopters," Rasmussen said.
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