Status of NATO's nuclear forces - Arms control negotiations - Implementation of 1979 Dual-Track and 1983 Montebello Decisions - Strategy of flexible response - Imbalances between forces - Equitable and verifiable reductions in forces - Prospects for a longer-range INF agreement and constraints on shorter-range systems.

Possibility for real progress in East/West relations - Continued validity of NATO's strategy of flexible response and forward defence - Indivisibility of the defence of Europe and North America - Position of Greece on nuclear matters - 1987 Ministerial Guidance - Aim of a 3% real increase in defence expenditure - CDI - Closer alignment between national and Alliance planning - Air Defence - Equitable share of risks, burdens and benefits of defence - Assistance to Greece, Portugal and Turkey - Armaments planning - Effective use of resources - Protection of militarily relevant technology - IEPG "Principles for Collaboration" - Improved prospects for nuclear arms control agreements between the United States and the Soviet Union - Increasing importance of removing conventional disparities - Increased openness and establishment of verifiable comprehensive and stable balance of conventional forces at lower levels - Prevention of war and preservation of peace and freedom.

Current arms control negotiations - Alliance security objectives - Support for global elimination of land-based INF - Prospect of a verifiable INF treaty - START: support for 50% reduction in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union - Strategy of flexible response - Minimum levels of nuc- lear weapons necessary for deterrence.

Support for agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union for the global elimination of land-based INF missiles - Flexible response and forward defence - INF agreement: a major accomplishment for the Alliance - Imbalances in conventional forces - CDI - NATO Force Plan for 1988- 1992 - Alliance planning - Assistance to Greece, Portugal and Turkey - NATO Conventional Armaments Planning System (CAPS) - CNAD - Continued validity of Harmel approach - Progress in Vienna to convene conventional stability negotiations.

INF: a Treaty without precedent in the history of arms control - Possibility of progress in other arms control areas - 20th anniversary of Harmel Report - More forthcoming Soviet attitude - Imperatives of collective security - Strategy of deterrence - Efforts towards effectively verifiable arms control measures - Comprehensive concept of arms control - Elimination of conventional disparities - START - Chemical weapons - MBFR - CSCE - Implementation of Stockholm Document - WEU Hague Declaration - Inner German dialogue - Afghanistan - CAPS - IEPG - Terrorism - Appointment of Mr. Wörner as Secretary General of NATO.

Out-of-area - Iran/Iraq Conflict - Economic Co-operation and Assistance within the Alliance - CCMS - Science for Stability - Situation in the Medi- terranean - East/West trade.