Rose Gottemoeller

Defense Minister Zoran Djordjevic on Friday in Belgrade received high ranking officials of CSTO and NATO in separate meetings.

NATO has "good relations with Serbia" - while Serbia "has the right to decide" whether it also wants to cooperate with Russia.

Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller said this in an exclusive interview for the European Western Balkans website, Tanjug is reporting this Wednesday.

European member-states of NATO agreed at a meeting of defence ministers in Brussels to purchase jointly aircraft and submarines.

There is also an option for the establishment of new command headquarters for the elite troops of the alliance in Europe.

NATO Deputy Secretary-General Rose Gottemoeller says the Western military organization "has nothing against" the joint Serbia-Russia-Belarus exercise.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima on August 6 to mark 70 years since the atomic bombing that helped end World War II but still divides opinion today over whether the total destruction it caused was justified.

Frank Rose, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Space and Defense Policy with the U.S. Department of State, said on Tuesday at the 2014 Multinational Ballistic Missile Defense Conference organized in Bucharest that the United States could not have dreamed for a better partner than Romania.