Russian authorities informed the Norwegian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday that officials in Moscow were immediately halting, cancelling or postponing all planned military cooperation with NATO's members.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed NATO is pursuing anti-Russian policies and supporting an aggressive Georgia. He insists Russia is not occupying Georgia and has no plans to annex the separatist Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

The warning from Russia signals a further deterioration in relations between Russia and western nations. It comes a day after NATO members meeting at a summit in Brussels criticized Russia's military aggression in Georgian territory and voted to suspend cooperation with NATO’s Russian council.

"There’s no doubt that our relationship to Russian has now chilled," Espen Barth Eide, state secretary in the Defense Ministry, told Aftenposten.
Around 10 joint military exercises were planned involving Russian and NATO members through the end of this year. They will probably all be cancelled.

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