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- We have reviewed today in Istanbul the implementation
of these Summit decisions and resolved to press forward
with it. We note with satisfaction the progress already
achieved in the short time since the Summit. We have
given guidance to the Council in Permanent Session on how
to proceed further, and look forward to its reports to us
at our next meeting in December.
- We are particularly pleased with the positive
reception of the Partnership for Peace initiative by our
Partners in the North Atlantic Cooperation Council and by
other CSCE countries. Twenty countries have already
joined with us in this endeavour to forge new security
relationships with the Alliance, to expand political and
military cooperation throughout Europe, and to increase
stability and diminish threats to peace. The immediate
response of Partner countries, and the care they have put
into their preparations for this cooperation, demonstrate
their commitment to working alongside the Alliance for
the preservation of peace and security in the Euro-Atlantic area.
- The process of implementation of the Partnership for
Peace initiative is well underway. Some Partner
countries' representatives have already moved into
dedicated office facilities at NATO Headquarters. The
first individual Partnership programme should be agreed
shortly. The Partnership Coordination Cell at Mons has
been inaugurated and will under the authority of the
North Atlantic Council, carry out the military planning
necessary to implement the Partnership Programmes. The
work of the Coordination Cell will provide the basis for
joint training and exercises. The first joint
peacekeeping field exercises will take place this autumn
in The Netherlands and in Poland, the latter being the
Partnership's first major activity in a Partner country.
A joint maritime exercise sponsored by SACLANT is also
being planned for later this year. In addition, a number
of nationally sponsored peacekeeping exercises with
Partners will take place in 1994, also contributing to
the goals of the Partnership.
- We have tasked the Council in Permanent Session to
expedite work on a draft convention on the status of
Partners' missions and representatives to NATO. We are
grateful to Belgium for provisional arrangements under
which Liaison Officers of Partner countries will be able
to operate.
- We reiterate our conviction that stability and
security in the Euro-Atlantic area can be achieved only
through fulfilment in good faith of international
obligations, cooperation and common endeavour.
Partnership for Peace and our intensifying cooperation in
the framework of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council
are complementary in pursuing this goal. We want to
develop a strong partnership with all Partner countries.
We are pleased with the significantly expanded range of
practical cooperative activities being conducted under
the 1994 NACC Work Plan.
- Our Alliance's fundamental goal remains to contribute
to lasting peace, stability and well-being in the whole
of Europe. We are working for the intensification of
transparent relations between NATO and its partners on an
equal footing. These relations, while not replacing the
network of interdependent and mutually reinforcing
European and Euro-Atlantic institutions, help prevent new
divisions in Europe and contribute to strengthening
security. We therefore look forward to further deepening
our dialogue and strengthening our relationship with each
of our partners. This will not, of course, affect NATO's
right to take its own decisions on its own responsibility
by consensus of its members, including decisions on the
enlargement of the Alliance as envisaged in the January
1994 Brussels Summit Declaration.
- We reaffirm our strong support for political and
economic reform in Russia and recognize the important
contributions to European stability and security that
Russia can make on a wide range of issues. Accordingly,
we wish to develop constructive relations of mutual
respect, benefit and friendship between Russia and the
Alliance, and we welcome the progress already made. We
will pursue the further development of this relationship
in a way that complements and reinforces our relationship
with all the new democratic states to our east. The
Partnership for Peace is an important new element in
these relations, and we welcome Russia's declaration of
its intention to join it at an early date by signing the
Framework Document which sets out the principles guiding
the participation of all Partners. We hope and expect
that Russia will also join us in developing an extensive
and far-reaching Individual Partnership Programme,
corresponding to its size, importance, capabilities, and
willingness to contribute to the pursuit of shared
objectives. As with all Partners, our relationship with
Russia, including in appropriate areas outside the
Partnership for Peace, will be developed over time. Good
cooperative relations between NATO and Russia will be the
key element for security and stability in Europe. We are,
therefore, interested in a broad dialogue with Russia in
pursuit of common goals in areas where Russia has a
unique or particularly important contribution to make.
- We believe that an independent, democratic, stable
and nuclear weapons-free Ukraine would contribute to
security and stability in Europe. We therefore welcome
Ukraine's adherence to the Partnership for Peace and we
look forward to further developing our relationship with
Ukraine.
- We have taken note of the preliminary work undertaken
on the further adaptation of the Alliance's structures
and procedures, in particular on the development of the
Combined Joint Task Forces concept, including an initial
assessment by NATO's Military Authorities of the military
aspects of the implementation of this concept. On the
basis of today's discussion, further political guidance
is being developed which will also take account of the
views of the WEU. In this regard, we have taken note of
the views expressed by WEU Ministers in the Kirchberg
Declaration of 9 May 1994. We look forward to a further
report by the Council in Permanent Session at our next
meeting in December. We attach great importance to this
work, which will enhance the Alliance's ability to
respond to crises and provide separable but not separate
military capabilities that could be employed by NATO or
the WEU. The Summit decisions have set the course for
cooperation, including the readiness of the Alliance to
make its collective assets available, on the basis of
consultations undertaken by the European Allies in
pursuit of their Common Foreign and Security Policy.
- Following the decision at the Brussels Summit to
intensify and expand NATO's political and defence efforts
against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and
the means of delivery, we have today adopted and made
public an overall policy framework setting out the basic
principles of the Alliance's role in this field. We will
continue to support and seek to reinforce ongoing efforts
in other international fora and institutions to prevent
proliferation. We will also give active consideration in
the Alliance on how to reduce the proliferation threat or
protect against it. We have tasked the Council in
Permanent Session to report back to us at our December
meeting.
- We have discussed a number of regional issues and
sources of tension.
- The situation in Southern Caucasus continues to be of
special concern. We condemn the use of force for
territorial gains. Respect for the territorial integrity
independence and sovereignty of Armenia, Azerbaijan and
Georgia is essential to the establishment of peace,
stability and cooperation in the region. Peaceful and
just solutions to ongoing conflicts in the region can
only be reached through efforts under the aegis of the UN
and the CSCE.
- We welcome the recent agreement to complete the
withdrawal of foreign troops from Latvia by 31 August
1994. We expect the early conclusion of the on-going
bilateral negotiations to achieve an agreement on the
withdrawal of the foreign troops remaining in Estonia by
the same date. We urge the parties to resolve the
remaining issues.
- We will consult in the North Atlantic Cooperation
Council tomorrow with our Cooperation Partners on all
these issues and on possible ways to resolve them.
- We are deeply concerned that despite all efforts of
the international community, the conflict in the former
Yugoslavia and, particular, in Bosnia and herzegovina
continues. We welcome the contribution of the Contact
Group and support the conclusions reached at the 13 May
Geneva meeting of Foreign Ministers.
- We urge the parties concerned to:
- The Alliance reiterates its determination to carry
out the necessary action under the authority of the UN
Secretary Council and, where appropriate in close
coordination with UNPROFOR, to enforce UN Security
Council resolutions dealing with embargoes on the Former
Yugoslavia, the No-Fly Zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina
established in accordance with Security Council
resolutions 824 and 836. We are united in our resolve to
follow up the Alliance decisions of 9 February and 22
April which established military exclusion zones. We
reaffirm our readiness to support the implementation of
an agreed peace settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- We reaffirm the importance we attach to enhanced
relations with other institutions. Over the past six
months, the Alliance's relationship with the UN has
developed greatly. The Alliance has demonstrated its
readiness and its capacity to support on a case by case
basis, peacekeeping and other operations under the
authority of the UN Security Council. We will work for
further improvement in the mutual understanding and the
close cooperation between NATO and the UN.
- Close cooperation and coordination between NATO and
WEU will continue to be developed in accordance with the
principles of complementary and transparency. The Summit
decisions have set the course for our cooperation,
including the readiness of the Alliance to make its
collective assets available, on the basis of
consultations in the North Atlantic Council, for WEU
operations undertaken by the European Allies in pursuit
of their Common Foreign and Security Policy.
- We welcome the decisions taken in Luxembourg by the
WEU Council to create a status of association with the
Central European Consultation Partners of the WEU. This
important decision complements the Alliance's efforts to
promote security and stability through the North Atlantic
Cooperation Council and the Partnership for Peace, and
contributes to the growing network of security structures
in Europe.
- We welcome the progress made in the preparation of
the Pact on Stability in Europe, and more particularly
the success of the Inaugural Conference held in Paris on
26-27 may. We will continue fully to support this
initiative, which aims to promote good neighbourly
relations in Central and Eastern Europe, including
questions related to frontiers and minorities, as well as
regional cooperation and the strengthening of democratic
institutions.
- The CSCE remains central to European security. We
will work with other CSCE states to ensure that the
Budapest Review Conference and Budapest Summit of Heads
of State and Government will achieve progress in all
areas of the CSCE, particularly with regard to early
warning and conflict prevention, and further strengthen
its effectiveness. We will contribute to the means
necessary for the CSCE to carry out agreed missions and
operations in timely and substantive way, and call upon
other CSCE participating states to do likewise. We
welcome arrangements that allow NATO to participate in
the work of the CSCE and the CSCE to participate in
certain NATO activities, and, as decided at our meetings
in Athens last spring and at the CSCE Council in Rome,
look forward to further development of the interaction
and cooperation between the two organisations.
- We noted with satisfaction the results thus so far in
the CSCE's Forum for Security Cooperation. We look
forward to further concrete results by the time of the
CSCE Summit IN Budapest on the issues identified in the
Programme for Immediate Action, particularly with regard
to a code of conduct committing all CSCE states to common
rules of politico-military behaviour, the harmonisation
of the obligations in the existing international
instruments on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the
development of the Vienna Document 1992 on confidence-
building measures, the global exchange of military
information and non-proliferation of weapons and mass
destruction. This CSCE Summit will provide an opportunity
to take stock and give an impetus to the security
dialogue and the negotiations conducted in the framework
of the CSCE. We expect the Summit to address the issues
of regional arms control, in particular with regard to
the former Yugoslavia.
- We remain committed to the full and timely
implementation of and the compliance with existing arms
control and disarmament agreements. We continue to attach
particular importance to:
- the integrity of the CFE Treaty and full compliance
with all its provisions;
- the indefinite and unconditional extension of the
Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the
work towards an enhanced verification regime;
- achieving a universal and verifiable Comprehensive Test
Ban Treaty at Geneva Conference on Disarmament;
- the early coming into force of the Convention of
Chemical Weapons;
- the early entry into force of the Treaty on Open Skies;
- the strengthening of the Biological Weapons Convention.
- We welcome the assistance to the states concerned in
eliminating former Soviet weapons of mass destruction. We
consult tomorrow with our Cooperation Partners in the
North Atlantic Cooperation Council on these and other
arms control and disarmament issues.
- We condemn all acts of international terrorism. They
constitute flagrant violations of human dignity and
rights and are a threat to the conduct of normal
international relations. In accordance with our national
legislation, we stress the need for the most effective
cooperation possible to prevent and suppress this
scourge.
- We carefully follow the political developments around
the Mediterranean. We are concerned by the risks to
stability in this area. We consider that not only the
security of the Alliance, but also that of Europe in
general is affected by security in the Mediterranean. We
direct the Council in Permanent Session to continue to
review the overall situation and to examine possible
proposals by its members with a view to contributing to
the strengthening of regional stability.
- We express our deep appreciation for the gracious
hospitality extended to us by the Government of Turkey.
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