Read on MSNBC, NATO, Russia step up cooperation:
Under the expected agreement with Moscow, a new NATO-Russia Council would deal with a fixed range of issues likely to include terrorism, arms proliferation, missile defense, peacekeeping, management of regional crises, search and rescue efforts and arms control.
The deal springs from Russian President Vladimir Putin's cooperation with the West since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"After 60 years of estrangement between Russia and the West there is an identifiable common enemy. There is unprecedented cooperation at the highest level," NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson was quoted as saying by Britain's Guardian newspaper Monday."

It sucks that it took 9/11 to get these people to cooperate. What happens when there isn't a 'common enemy' again?