"We have the idea that the large conference room, with all parties with an interest and commitment in Afghanistan," Clinton said at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers here.
"If we in this meeting, it is expected that Iran will be invited, as a neighbor of Afghanistan," he said at a press conference at the end of the island.
The Netherlands, taking into account the large number of conferences, March 31 and will be approved by the United Nations. Iran will not say if the sentence.
Clinton proposal demonstrates that Afghanistan, with the greatest potential for opening a channel to Iran - that President Barack Obama has a theme of his foreign policy. On Wednesday, Clinton said that Iran has often consulted with the U.S. in the early days of the U.S. war to overthrow the Taliban regime in 2001.
Although the firm tone against Iran, and said that the U.S. plans to install a missile defense system in Eastern Europe is the threat posed by such regimes as Iran, the long-range missiles, and the search for nuclear weapons.
"There was discussion that the status of Iran's nuclear weapons production facilities," said Clinton. "But I do not think that the debate about the reliability of their intentions."
Prodded by the United States, NATO also agreed to provide a high-level consultations with Russia, within six months after it is after the Georgian military offensive against Moscow.
Clinton called "Fresh Start" with Russia, but Washington refuses to recognize the two separatist regions in Georgia, the war and rejected the claim of Russian "sphere of influence."
"It is time to move forward and not wait for the illusion that the situation will change for me," she said. "It is time for realism and hope."
Clinton said that the areas where Russia and NATO can work together, including in Afghanistan, the fight against drug trafficking, and combating the spread of nuclear weapons, especially in Iran and North Korea.
In Afghanistan, Clinton said: "We hope that this meeting could provide an opportunity to develop a common set of principles."
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said: "I hope that Iran will seize the opportunity", noted that Iran has an invitation to a conference on Afghanistan in Paris in December.
The United States is called "Reset" in the relations between the United States and Russia, is seeking a consensus among NATO members over the resumption of negotiations with Russia.
Diplomats believe, Lithuania, the last holdout among the members of NATO, on demand, rather than a continuation of the discussion at the meeting of the NATO summit in early April.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that the resumption of higher does not mean that the alliance against Russia objected to the plan for military bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two separatist regions in Georgia.
"This forum, in good weather and the climate is not fair," said de Hoop Scheffer, in relation to the NATO-Russia Council.
De Hoop Scheffer went to the Obama proposal the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, the deployment of U.S. anti-missile system low in Eastern Europe, if Russia agreed to cooperate in the fight against Iran's nuclear program.
Russia welcomes thaw in NATO
Russian officials immediately welcomed the decision by NATO on the links, news agencies reported from Brussels.
"We are too fast for the companies in order to ensure stability and security in Afghanistan," said Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian envoy to NATO. Russia has the willingness to help the war, the first carriage of supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, he added.
See you in NATO, Russia said it would allow the U.S. to transit - not military supplies into Afghanistan. With their supply lines under pressure from attacks by militants, NATO hopes that in the future, such assistance could be extended to air traffic and lethal aid.
He hoped that Russia on cooperation in the development of Central Asian states, the transition from membership to NATO, and in accordance with the open base of NATO troops, one of which will soon be closed Kyrgyzstan.
Clinton, the first substantive talks with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Federation in Geneva on Friday, and on the resumption of relations with NATO is the atmosphere.
Lithuania, Georgia, the former Soviet republic's independence in 1990, called for the unification of NATO on Thursday that Russia needs a discussion, and should be retained Reunion April 3-4 NATO summit in France, after a senior official revealed that U.S. -- details of private conversations with the condition that they not be identified.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Vygaudas UĊĦacka said "somewhat premature" to re-award of relations with Russia and NATO.
Clinton and others seem to have underestimated the depth of feelings between the Lithuanians, who led Clinton and other foreign ministers, ministers and the reunification of the stack only that negotiations continued until the afternoon. The Lithuanians were finally join the consensus.