NATO and Russia agreed on Saturday to resume their military-to-military contacts, which have been frozen since the Russia-Georgia military conflict in August 2008.

"We restarted our relations at political level. We also agreed to restart military-to-military contacts, which have been frozen since last August," NATO Secretary-general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told reporters at the end of a NATO-Russia foreign ministers' meeting.

(Xinhua News Agency June 28, 2009)