BRUSSELS, November 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and NATO are set to discuss the compatibility of military units in counter-terrorism efforts in 2006, the Russian senior military representative to NATO said Thursday.

"We will open this cooperation sphere for the first time next year," Vice Admiral Valentin Kuznetsov said.

He said Chief of the Russian General Staff Yury Baluyevsky and NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe General James Jones would discuss these prospects at a bilateral meeting in Mons, Belgium November 14.

Russia will join NATO's Active Endeavor counter-terrorism operation in the Mediterranean in early 2006, Kuznetsov said. He noted that Russia and NATO would also hold a joint air defense exercise in Moscow next year.