MOSCOW, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Russia welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama's plans to review U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and is ready to cooperate on the issue, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday in the Uzbek capital Tashkent, news agencies reported.

    "We hope the new U.S. administration will be more successful than the previous one in resolving the Afghanistan issue," Medvedev was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti on the second day of his two-day visit to Uzbekistan.

    "We are ready for full-fledged and equal cooperation with all countries on security in Afghanistan, including the United States," he said, adding that Russia would work with NATO on the transit of non-military supplies to Afghanistan.

    Uzbek President Islam Karimov, in his turn, backed Obama's decision to settle Afghanistan's mounting problems and said such countries as India, China, Iran and Pakistan could join international efforts on the war-ravaged Central Asian state.

    Before the brief war with Georgia, Russia agreed to allow NATO to ship non-military goods to Afghanistan across its territory bypassing Pakistan, where supply convoys face security risks.

    However, NATO suspended high-level contacts with Russia following the Caucasus crisis. In response, Russia halted cooperation with NATO's Moscow office and called off the NATO chief's visit to Moscow.

    High-level political contacts between the alliance and Moscow only resumed when NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin in Brussels on Dec. 19.

    NATO and Russia are expected to hold on Monday the first session of their council since last August. Russia said the fate of the transit routes depends on how relations between Moscow and the bloc develop.