The two sides had aimed to hold the meeting in May, but Moscow postponed it after NATO expelled two Russian diplomats in a spying scandal.
NATO spokesman James Appathurai said Corfu had been chosen for the talks because it would be the venue of a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. "This is a good chance to get Minister Lavrov and Clinton without interrupting the travel schedules too much," he said.
NATO had said coordinating the schedules of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been an obstacle to rescheduling the meeting.
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