MOSCOW: Russia's top military boss was set to meet with a senior NATO commander in Baku on Thursday, as concerns swirled over major war games Moscow will hold next week with Belarus.

The Russian defense ministry said Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO's Military Committee, would discuss "current issues of international security" in Azerbaijan, Russian news agencies reported.

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