NEW YORK (AFP) – NATO and Russia will seek to build a new foundation of trust at a key meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, encompassing common threats and lingering disagreements.

The foreign ministers-level meeting of the NATO-Russia Council comes as the 28-nation alliance waits for Russia to respond to an invitation to hold a full-scale leaders summit in Lisbon on November 20.
The New York talks are seen as way to lay the groundwork for that summit, and will discuss issues including NATO-Russia cooperation on Afghanistan and the controversial U.S. missile defense scheme.
The U.S. ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder told reporters on Tuesday that the session in New York was designed to provide a new channel of communication between the western alliance and Moscow.
""The NATO-Russia Council is a place where we can do business, where we can work together to resolve issues of common concern ... and also where we can continue to have a dialogue about those issues on which we disagree,"" he said.
""NATO wants, the United States wants, all of the allies want, a relationship with Russia, a partnership. We don't want an adversary. We're not looking for an adversary. We don't think Russia is an adversary.
""But just as friends disagree we will find that there will be times when NATO and Russia will disagree.
""That's not a bad thing -- that's just the reality. The bad thing is when we can't talk about it.""
Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, has said that the Russian national security council will examine the summit invitation announced by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen last week.
NATO and Russia held their last meeting at the level of heads of state and government in April 2008 in Bucharest.
The Lisbon meeting would take place after NATO leaders hold their own summit in the Portuguese capital November 19-20.
Russia and the West are at odds over the disarmament of conventional weapons in Europe, the situation in Georgia following the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war and NATO's eastward enlargement and the membership of post-Soviet states.
But the two sides have identified common interests in the face of threats such as terrorism, nuclear proliferation and drug trafficking as they gingerly revive ties that had sunk to a new low following the war in Georgia.
On the Afghan front, Russia cooperates in the fight against drug smuggling and allows the transit of supplies, except weapons, for NATO troops through its territory.