NATO - Russia Will Cooperate With NATO on Missile Shield, Sets Terms

Russia agreed to take part in a NATO missile-defense system, promising to expand cooperation between the former Cold War adversaries as President Barack Obama pushes the U.S. Senate to ratify a nuclear-arms reduction treaty.

“Today we have not only buried ghosts of the past that have haunted us for too long,” said North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen after leaders of the 28 alliance members met today with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Lisbon. “We have made a fresh start.”