Russia says ready to work with US on Afghanistan

Russia welcomed Barack Obamas decision to review policy in Afghanistan and is ready to cooperate,including on supply routes for NATO forces,Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.

Let us hope the new US administration will be more successful in the Afghan settlement than its predecessor, Medvedev said at a news conference. We are ready for fully fledged and equal cooperation on security in Afghanistan,including with the United States, he added. We are ready to work on the most complicated issues… including the transit of non-military goods. Cooperation on Afghanistan has been the most successful project uniting NATO and Russia,whose relations froze after Moscows brief war in Georgia last August. Before the war,Russia agreed to allow non-military NATO supplies to be delivered to Afghanistan across its territory bypassing Pakistan,where supply convoys face security risks.