Russia to attend NATO summit and talk missiles

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed on Tuesday to attend next month's NATO summit and said Moscow was prepared to discuss the Alliance's proposed anti-missile shield.

Medvedev was speaking in the elegant French seaside resort of Deauville after talks with French and German leaders that were partly overshadowed by news of a bloody separatist attack in the Russian republic of Chechnya.

President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted Medvedev in order to promote closer security cooperation between Moscow and its former Cold War foes in the West in the run up to NATO's Lisbon summit on November 19.

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