Crisis Management Seminar 1999 (CMS 99), a joint NATO-WEU Ambassadorial-level seminar co-chaired by NATO Secretary General Solana and WEU Secretary General Cutileiro will take place on Wednesday, 3rd February at 1500 at NATO Headquarters.
The seminar is designed to contribute to building the European Security Defence Identity (ESDI) within the Alliance by:
helping to develop further and to validate the arrangements for consultations between NATO and WEU;
familiarising both Councils with arrangements developed for such consultations;
serving as a building block towards the Joint NATO/WEU CMX/CRISEX exercise in February 2000.
Focussing on a hypothetical scenario for a WEU-led operation using NATO assets and capabilities, Ambassadors will consider how the consultation arrangements would work at each stage of such a crisis; consultations on a worsening crisis; preparations for a WEU-led operation and executing the WEU-led operation.
