"The situation in Afghanistan and on the Afghan-Pakistani border and the terrorist attacks in Mumbai have once again indicated the need to take additional, significant and specific measures in the fight against terrorism on a collective basis," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a briefing at the Association of European Businesses in Moscow on Wednesday.

Russia "actively supports moves to involve both the Afghani and Pakistani governments" in the process, he said.

"The first steps are being taken in this area, including with the participation of the G8. But it is obvious that they are still not enough. We welcome the plans of Italy as the G8 president to pay great attention to this problem and to directly involve Afghanistan and Pakistan in the matter," the minister said.

"The objectives of anti-terrorist struggle could be achieved more effectively if our partners in NATO gave constructive consideration to our old proposals to develop cooperation between NATO, which maintains an international contingent within Afghanistan, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the most members of which are Afghanistan’s neighbors and which carries out regular anti-drug trafficking operations along the external perimeter of Afghanistan’s borders," Lavrov said

The CSTO includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

"Russia’s suggestion to establish direct cooperation between NATO and the CSTO on this problem has been lying on the table of the Russia-NATO Council for a long time. So far, NATO has chosen to avoid this offer," Lavrov said.