NATO countries will be invited as observers to the Russian-Belarusian strategic war game Zapad’2013. It will be held at the end of October in Belarus, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov told Itar-Tass Tuesday on the threshold of a session of the Russia-NATO Council at the level of ambassadors. The Council is due to meet in session in Brussels Wednesday, July 24. Anatoly Antonov will chair the Russian military delegation.