Albania develops its cooperation with NATO

Albania's Individual Partnership Programme (IPP) for 2000-2001 will soon be approved. IPPs are tailor-made programmes which spell out the political aims, the military assets a Partner is willing to contribute to Partnership for Peace activities, and the areas of cooperation the country has chosen to develop with NATO. These two-year programmes allow Partners to differentiate themselves and determine their degree of activity.

Albania is among the 9 Partner countries preparing for possible membership of the Alliance. The 8 other countries are: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ¹.