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Nato and Russia have agreed to resume military ties in their first high-level meeting since Russia’s war with Georgia disrupted their relations 10 months ago.

Nato’s outgoing Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer announced that the so-called Nato-Russia Council, a panel set up in 2002 to improve ties between the former Cold War rivals, was operational again.