OREANDA-NEWS. March 18, 2009. Dmitry Medvedev issued an order confirming the members of the Russian Federation Intergovernmental Commission for Cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Implementation of the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between the Russian Federation and NATO.

Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov has been appointed Chairman of the Commission.

The Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between the Russian Federation and NATO was signed in Paris on May 27, 1997.