MOSCOW, March 25. /TASS/. Russia will be ready to resume counterterrorism cooperation with NATO if the organization takes such a decision, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday after the talks with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni.

"We focused on boosting counterterrorism efforts," Lavrov said, adding that the coordination of actions is vital in the sphere.

"We’ve discussed the troubled situation in the counter-terrorism sphere in the framework of the Russia-NATO Council," Lavrov said. "This work, as well as many other areas of cooperation between Russia and NATO, has been suspended, which does not help the situation."

"We are ready to unfreeze this and other ways of cooperation if our NATO colleagues take such decision and change their negative attitude to this forms of cooperation," the minister said. "The same concerns the EU-Russia relations, which had lots of useful instruments helping to solve the problems, on which the effectiveness of anti-terrorism actions depends."