PRESS RELEASE (93)74                               30 November 1993

               NATO SECRETARY GENERAL ADDRESSES CSCE COUNCIL

ROME: In his address to the CSCE Council meeting in Rome on 30 November
1993, NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner said that co-operation
between the Alliance and the CSCE can multiply the efficiency of the
two organizations. In the address, he said the two organizations "do
not compete, we complement each other," and that "we want the CSCE to
succeed and therefore our member nations and NATO itself will do the
utmost possible to strengthen the CSCE."

Drawing lessons from the crisis in the former Yugoslavia, the Secretary
General stressed that "we must make better use of the resources, assets
and strengths of our respective organizations," which "means not
duplication, but rather synergy of effort." He pointed out that "the
Alliance has backed its words with action," responding "effectively,
reliably and quickly" to the UN Security Council's call for support of
its peacekeeping activities in the former Yugoslavia. Mr. Woerner added
that "the fruitful, effective and growing co-operation between the
United Nations and NATO has revealed the necessity to have early
co-ordination between institutions if they are preparing to support one
another in undertaking peacekeeping and conflict prevention actions."

The Secretary General also pointed to the success of the North Atlantic
Co-operation Council Ad Hoc Group on Co-operation in Peace-keeping in
producing "common understandings on the need to conduct peace-keeping
activities under UN or CSCE authority." He was confident that the
co-operation programme being implemented will soon result in joint
peace-keeping training and exercises. Mr. Woerner repeated NATO's
standing offer, made at its Oslo Ministerial meeting in 1992, to
support peace-keeping activities under the responsibility of the CSCE.

He saw "our efforts of dialogue, consultation and co-operation with our
former adversaries on security issues in the North Atlantic
Co-operation Council as an indispensible contribution to overall
European stability... and we intend to deepen this work." Mr. Woerner
concluded: "We have at our disposal the necessary instruments to take
care of the security problems of our continent. What we need is the
clear political will and determination to use them and to co-ordinate
our activities efficiently."