Brussels, 15/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - Relations between the European Union and NATO may, at the request of the European Parliament, be included on the agenda of the next European Council, in September, says the head of the EP delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (EPP, Poland). Saryusz-Wolski, who organised the first visit by the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, at the EP on Wednesday 14 July, said it is in the “general interest” for cooperation between the EU and NATO to “be of the most concrete kind”, even if this goes beyond strengthening cooperation with Turkey in the field of common security and defence policy (CSDP). EU/NATO cooperation and relations have been severely handicapped by the persistent Turkish-Cypriot dispute (EUROPE 10178). At the request of Rasmussen, backed by Saryusz-Wolski, the president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, is expected to invite the president of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, to include EU-NATO partnership on the agenda of the September European Council, which is to take stock of the major EU strategic partnerships (United States, Russia, China, India, Brazil, in particular). Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was received by President Buzek, reiterated on Wednesday during his in camera address before the foreign affairs and defence committees that he wished to see NATO included on the list. The secretary general is expected, this autumn, to attend another meeting at the EP, open to members of the committees on foreign affairs and defence of national parliaments. (A.By./O.J./transl.jl)