Securing an environment for peaceful and more stable relationships between East and West on the basis of balanced forces at the lowest possible level - Continued validity of Harmel Report of 1967 - Need for diversified, survivable and operationally flexible nuclear forces across the entire spectrum - Impact of intended unilateral force reductions by the Soviet Union and some of its allies - Incompatibility of Warsaw Pact force strengths with doctrine of 'reasonable sufficiency' - Step by step approach to ensure that NATO's nuclear forces continue to provide an effective contribution to deterrent strategy - Continued support for efforts of member countries to meet Montebello requirements - SACEUR's Nuclear Weapons Requirements Study - Possibility of further significant reductions in NATO's total nuclear weapons requirements - Potential shift of emphasis towards relatively longer ranges across the entire spectrum - Political context for future decisions, including the Alliance's comprehensive concept of arms control and disarmament.

Successful results brought about by Alliance policies - Summit Declaration and Comprehensive Concept of Arms Control and Disarmament - Alliance's strategy for prevention of war - Maintenance of a strong and coherent defence posture in the interests of security and of constructive dialogue and co-operation with Eastern countries - NATO requirements for deterrence and defence - Continuing imbalance between Warsaw Pact and NATO forces - Further proposals and timetable for CFE negotiations - Implications of CFE negotiations for NATO's collective defence planning activities - 1989 Ministerial Guidance - Development and implementation of next set of force goals - Need to maintain momentum of Conventional Defence Improvements Programme (CDI) - Military assistance to Greece, Portugal and Turkey - Further development of NATO planning processes - Recommendations contained in December 1988 Report on equitable sharing of rôles, risks and responsibilities - Defence requirements - Level and mix of military training and exercises in Europe required to maintain operational standards - Conventional armaments planning system - Armaments cooperation - Maintenance of forces at lowest possible levels consistent with security requirements.

Political declaration and Comprehensive Concept of Arms Control and Disarmament adopted at May 1989 Summit Meeting - Status of NATO's nuclear forces - Encouraging changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe but continuing offensive capability of Warsaw Pact forces - Commitment to keep NATO' s nuclear forces responsive, survivable and effective across the required spectrum of ranges at lowest levels consistent with security - Improvement and expansion of Soviet space-based support and reinforcement capabilities and anti-satellite operations - Continuing momentum of Soviet nuclear force modernization - Limited effect of intended Warsaw Pact unilateral force reductions on Soviet nuclear capabilities or SNF superiority - SDI - Status of US strategic forces modemization - Rôle of US and UK strategic deterrent capabilities - Conceptual examination of implications of CFE agreement for NATO's nuclear forces - Progress in START, Defence and Space, and Nuclear Testing Talks - Central importance of full compliance with arms control agreements - Security policy and arms control.

Opportunities for improved East-West relations and a more stable and lasting peace in Europe - Value of approach taken at May 1989 Summit - Need for strong, united Alliance, effective defence and credible deterrence to support political change - Basis for assessment of defence requirements - Impact of Soviet conventional force reductions - Need for early CFE agreement - Implications of a CFE agreement for NATO's collective defence planning - Progress in CSBM negotiations, including agreement to hold a military doctrine seminar - Mutual reinforcement of Alliance's defence planning and arms control objectives - 1989 Annual Defence Review - Adoption of NATO Force Plan for 1990-1994 - Equitable sharing of rôles, risks, and responsibilities as well as benefits of collective defence - Implementation of recommendations in December 1988 report on Enhancing Alliance Security - Review of military assistance to, and defence industrial co-operation with, Greece, Portugal and Turkey - Progress report by NATO's Military Authorities concerning military training and exercises in Europe - Potential for the establishment of a multinational airmobile division in the Northern Army Group area - Efforts of CNAD to establish a conventional armaments planning system - Funding of transfer of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing to Italy - Prospects for a more secure and stable military balance at lower levels of forces - Promoting co-operation and dialogue.

Review of historic change in Central and Eastern Europe - Impetus for positive change and unprecedented margin for action in Eastern Europe resulting from Soviet reforms - Possibilities for mutually beneficial co-operation between East and West - Progress in expanding dialogue and co-operative action - Consolidation of progress - Institutionalising rule of law and democratic government through free elections - Overcoming the division of Europe - Support for development of human rights and political freedoms - Hopes for peaceful and democratic process of reform - Progress towards freedom and democracy in the GDR and Eastern sector of Berlin - German unity through self-determination in the perspective of international treaty obligations and European integration - Continued importance of the Alliance - Indivisibility of Allied security - Maintenance of nuclear and conventional forces at the lowest possible level required for deterrence - Progress of arms control and disarmament - Intensification of the Alliance's political functions in support of positive change - The Future of Europe - Strengthening Western political and economic structures - Rôles of EFTA and Council of Europe - Central importance of CSCE - Implementation of the approach set out at 1989 Summit meetings of the Alliance - CSCE aspirations - Copenhagen Conference on Human Dimension - Consideration of CSCE political level meeting in advance of Helsinki 1992 Follow-up Meeting - East-West economic relations - Economic assistance to Poland and Hungary - December 13 Declaration of the Group of 24 - Arms control objectives of the Alliance's Comprehensive Concept - CFE prospects - High Level Task Force rôle in CFE - 1990 Seminar on Military Doctrine in CSBM negotiations framework - Common Allied position for February 1990 Ottawa Conference on Open Skies - US-Soviet START objectives - Progress towards a chemical weapons ban - Free flow of information between East and West - Establishment of NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowships - Co-operative endeavours with Eastern countries in areas of common interest - Intensification of Allied consultation process.

Economic Co-operation and Assistance within the Alliance - The Situation in the Mediterranean - Armaments Co-operation and Planning - Science Committee - Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society