NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer stated the Alliance cooperation with countries of the South Caucasus should be based on "two-way traffic street" principle. "We should establish new ties with our partners in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Both regions are of crucial military and political importance and withstand the transition stage challenges. The NATO can offer much to them and just due to that reason we speed up the cooperation rate with our partners in those two regions. "We wish to elaborate cooperation with them in compliance with the principle of two-way traffic street for the benefit of all of the European-Atlantic cooperation," the NATO Sec. Gen. stated, reported Mediamax.