PRESS COMMUNIQUE M-1(94)2                             
For immediate release
10 January 1994

                                                                           


                    PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE:  INVITATION

         Issued by the Heads of State and Government participating
               in the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council
         held at NATO Headquarters, Brussels on 10-11 January 1994


            We, the Heads of State and Government of the member
countries of the North Atlantic Alliance, building on the close
and longstanding partnership among the North American and
European Allies, are committed to enhancing security and
stability in the whole of Europe.  We therefore wish to
strengthen ties with the democratic states to our East.  We
reaffirm that the Alliance, as provided for in Article 10 of the
Washington Treaty, remains open to the membership of other
European states in a position to further the principles of the
Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic
area.  We expect and would welcome NATO expansion that would
reach to democratic states to our East, as part of an
evolutionary process, taking into account political and security
developments in the whole of Europe.  

            We have today launched an immediate and practical
programme that will transform the relationship between NATO and
participating states.  This new programme goes beyond dialogue
and cooperation to forge a real partnership - a Partnership for
Peace.  We therefore invite the other states participating in the
NACC and other CSCE countries able and willing to contribute to
this programme, to join with us in this partnership.  Active
participation in the Partnership for Peace will play an important
role in the evolutionary process of the expansion of NATO.

            The Partnership for Peace, which will operate under the
authority of the North Atlantic Council, will forge new security
relationships between the North Atlantic Alliance and its
Partners for Peace.  Partner states will be invited by the North
Atlantic Council to participate in political and military bodies
at NATO Headquarters with respect to Partnership activities.  The
Partnership will expand and intensify political and military
cooperation throughout Europe, increase stability, diminish
threats to peace, and build strengthened relationships by
promoting the spirit of practical cooperation and commitment to
democratic principles that underpin our Alliance.  NATO will
consult with any active participant in the Partnership if that
partner perceives a direct threat to its territorial integrity,
political independence, or security.  At a pace and scope
determined by the capacity and desire of the individual
participating states, we will work in concrete ways towards
transparency in defence budgeting, promoting democratic control
of defence ministries, joint planning, joint military exercises,
and creating an ability to operate with NATO forces in such
fields as peacekeeping, search and rescue and humanitarian
operations, and others as may be agreed.

            To promote closer military cooperation and
interoperability, we will propose, within the Partnership
framework, peacekeeping field exercises beginning in 1994.  To
coordinate joint military activities within the Partnership, we
will invite states participating in the Partnership to send
permanent liaison officers to NATO Headquarters and a separate
Partnership Coordination Cell at Mons (Belgium) that would, under
the authority of the North Atlantic Council, carry out the
military planning necessary to implement the Partnership
programmes.

            Since its inception two years ago, the North Atlantic
Cooperation Council has greatly expanded the depth and scope of
its activities.  We will continue to work with all our NACC
partners to build cooperative relationships across the entire
spectrum of the Alliance's activities.  With the expansion of
NACC activities and the establishment of the Partnership for
Peace, we have decided to offer permanent facilities at NATO
Headquarters for personnel from NACC countries and other
Partnership for Peace participants in order to improve our
working relationships and facilitate closer cooperation.

ANNEX to M-1(94)2

                PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE:  FRAMEWORK DOCUMENT


      1.    Further to the invitation extended by the NATO Heads
of State and Government at their meeting on 10th/11th January,
1994, the member states of the North Atlantic Alliance and the
other states subscribing to this document, resolved to deepen
their political and military ties and to contribute further to
the strengthening of security within the Euro-Atlantic area,
hereby establish, within the framework of the North Atlantic
Cooperation Council, this Partnership for Peace.  

      2.    This Partnership is established as an expression of a
joint conviction that stability and security in the Euro-Atlantic
area can be achieved only through cooperation and common action. 
Protection and promotion of fundamental freedoms and human
rights, and safeguarding of freedom, justice, and peace through
democracy are shared values fundamental to the Partnership.  In
joining the Partnership, the member States of the North Atlantic
Alliance and the other States subscribing to this Document recall
that they are committed to the preservation of democratic
societies, their freedom from coercion and intimidation, and the
maintenance of the principles of international law.  They
reaffirm their commitment to fulfil in good faith the obligations
of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of the
Universal Declaration on Human Rights; specifically, to refrain
from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity
or political independence of any State, to respect existing
borders and to settle disputes by peaceful means.  They also
reaffirm their commitment to the Helsinki Final Act and all
subsequent CSCE documents and to the fulfilment of the commit-
ments and obligations they have undertaken in the field of
disarmament and arms control.

      3.    The other states subscribing to this document will
cooperate with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in pursuing
the following objectives:

      (a)   facilitation of transparency in national defence
            planning and budgeting processes;

      (b)   ensuring democratic control of defence forces;

      (c)   maintenance of the capability and readiness to con-
            tribute, subject to constitutional considerations, to
            operations under the authority of the UN and/or the
            responsibility of the CSCE;

      (d)   the development of cooperative military relations with
            NATO, for the purpose of joint planning, training, and
            exercises in order to strengthen their ability to
            undertake missions in the fields of peacekeeping,
            search and rescue, humanitarian operations, and others
            as may subsequently be agreed;

      (e)   the development, over the longer term, of forces that
            are better able to operate with those of the members
            of the North Atlantic Alliance.

      4.    The other subscribing states will provide to the NATO
Authorities Presentation Documents identifying the steps they
will take to achieve the political goals of the Partnership and
the military and other assets that might be used for Partnership
activities.  NATO will propose a programme of partnership
exercises and other activities consistent with the Partnership's
objectives.  Based on this programme and its Presentation
Document, each subscribing state will develop with NATO an
individual Partnership Programme.

      5.    In preparing and implementing their individual
Partnership Programmes, other subscribing states may, at their
own expense and in agreement with the Alliance and, as necessary,
relevant Belgian authorities, establish their own liaison office
with NATO Headquarters in Brussels.  This will facilitate their
participation in NACC/Partnership meetings and activities, as
well as certain others by invitation.  They will also make
available personnel, assets, facilities and capabilities
necessary and appropriate for carrying out the agreed Partnership
Programme.  NATO will assist them, as appropriate, in formulating
and executing their individual Partnership Programmes. 

      6.    The other subscribing states accept the following
understandings:

      -     those who envisage participation in missions referred
            to in paragraph 3(d) will, where appropriate, take
            part in related NATO exercises; 

      -     they will fund their own participation in Partnership
            activities, and will endeavour otherwise to share the
            burdens of mounting exercises in which they take part;

      -     they may send, after appropriate agreement, permanent
            liaison officers to a separate Partnership
            Coordination Cell at Mons (Belgium) that would, under
            the authority of the North Atlantic Council, carry out
            the military planning necessary to implement the
            Partnership programmes;

      -     those participating in planning and military exercises
            will have access to certain NATO technical data
            relevant to interoperability;

      -     building upon the CSCE measures on defence planning,
            the other subscribing states and NATO countries will
            exchange information on the steps that have been taken
            or are being taken to promote transparency in defence
            planning and budgeting and to ensure the democratic
            control of armed forces;

      -     they may participate in a reciprocal exchange of
            information  on defence planning and budgeting which
            will be developed within the framework of the
            NACC/Partnership for Peace.

      7.    In keeping with their commitment to the objectives of
this Partnership for Peace, the members of the North Atlantic
Alliance will:

      -     develop with the other subscribing states a planning
            and review process to provide a basis for identifying
            and evaluating forces and capabilities that might be
            made available by them for multinational training,
            exercises, and operations in conjunction with Alliance
            forces;

      -     promote military and political coordination at NATO
            Headquarters in order to provide direction and guid-
            ance relevant to Partnership activities with the other
            subscribing states, including planning, training,
            exercises and the development of doctrine.

      8.    NATO will consult with any active participant in the
Partnership if that Partner perceives a direct threat to its
territorial integrity, political independence, or security.