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Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

We will continue to be a big contributor to NATO and our interests will be more secure.

You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, post-9/11. The threat of nuclear weapons is not so much Russia attacking the United States, China. It's not a state-to-state - it's obviously terrorism; it's proliferation.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.