NATO will hold fresh talks with Russia next week, just days after a landmark alliance summit endorses a major military revamp to counter a more assertive Moscow, the organisation’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday."We have decided together with Russia to hold a meeting of the Nato-Russia Council … the meeting will take place on July 3 at the Nato headquarters in Brussels, shortly after the Nato summit in Warsaw" this Friday and Saturday, he said.The summit will involve ambassadors from the 28 member states and Russia.Nato leaders meet in Warsaw on Friday to cement a new deterrent against what they see as an emboldened Russia, returning to Cold War-style defence, with Washington again taking the part of Europe’s protector.Britain’s decision to quit the EU, along with a migration crisis and Islamic militancy, leaves US President Barack Obama seeking a show of unity at his last alliance summit to fend off accusations that Nato is obsolete, and to damp any Russian pe...
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