PRESS RELEASE M-NACC-2(95)121          For Immediate Release
                                       6th December 1995


             WORK PLAN FOR DIALOGUE, PARTNERSHIP
                  AND COOPERATION 1996/1997

Issued at the meeting of the North Atlantic Cooperation    
     Council held at NATO Headquarters, Brussels
                on 6th December 1995


Introduction

          The Foreign Ministers and Representatives of the
member countries of the North Atlantic Cooperation
Council, with the participation of observer countries,
have agreed to the following Work Plan for 1996/97.  It
builds on the foundations and principles of dialogue,
partnership and cooperation already established, in
particular at the Rome Summit in November 1991, the
Brussels Summit in January 1994 and NACC Ministerial
meetings.   The Work Plan covers political and security
related matters, policy planning consultations,
economic issues, science, challenges of the modern society
and information issues.  Because Partnership for Peace
activities are undertaken in the NACC framework, the Work
Plan includes in its annexes the list of topics under 
which PfP activities will occur, the list of activities
agreed by the PMSC Ad Hoc Group on Cooperation in
Peacekeeping and the list of PfP exercises. 

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           POLITICAL AND SECURITY RELATED MATTERS

Topics

01   Specific political and security related matters,
including regional security issues;

02   Conceptual approaches to arms control, disarmament
and non-proliferation, including transparency, the
security of new non-nuclear weapon states and the general
problems of security related to nuclear issues;

03   Strengthening the consultative and cooperation
process;

04   Practical cooperation with the OSCE on security
issues.

Activities

01   Consultations at Ambassadorial level on general and
specific issues, including in  brainstorming format;
     
02   Consultations at Ambassadorial level on general PfP
policy matters and common problems;

03   Regular and, as events dictate, ad hoc consultations
of the Political Committee with cooperation partners,
including as appropriate with experts;

04   Early consultations, particularly on regional
tensions with a potential to grow into crisis;

05   Informal political consultations between NATO and
individual partner countries, as appropriate;

06   Meetings of Regional Experts Group with experts from
partner countries once a year;

07   Briefing of cooperation partners, including at the
partner's request when possible, on decisions taken by the
North Atlantic Council and other important developments in
the Alliance having direct bearing on security and
stability; 

08   Continuation of seminars and experts meetings with
CFE cooperation partners on implementation of the CFE
treaty;

09   Continuation of the current programme of joint
multilateral inspection teams and joint inspector/escort
training for CFE cooperation partners, including a CFE
Course for verification teams' inspectors to be held in
the Schooling Centre in Komorni Hradek;

10   Continuation of support to CFE cooperation partners
in connecting to and in utilising VERITY.


                POLICY PLANNING CONSULTATIONS

Topic

01   Mid- and long-term foreign and security policy
issues;


Activity

01   A meeting of NATO's Atlantic Policy Advisory Group
with cooperation partners, in Romania in 1996 and in
Slovenia in 1997.


                   ECONOMIC ISSUES

DEFENCE CONVERSION (INCLUDING ITS HUMAN DIMENSION)

Topics

01   Conversion and social stability; integration into the
civilian economy of the manpower potential and military
equipment used in the military and the armaments industry;

02   Economic aspects pertaining to restructuring
armaments production sites and military garrisons and to
privatisation of military industries;

03   Conversion experiences (in particular in the field of
armaments production) and conversion planning.

Activities

01   Continued development by the Economic Directorate of
the database on technical expertise in defence conversion
with a view to its practical use in cooperation partner
countries;

02   Development of defence conversion pilot projects
supported by nations with a view to promoting cooperation
between industries of Allied and cooperation partner
countries;

03   Workshop on Romanian experience in the field of
restructuring and conversion of the defence industry, to
be held in Bucharest on May 1996, organized by the
Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of National Defence  
(Procurement and Logistics Department) in cooperation with
the Economic Committee;



04   International seminar on defence conversion in East
European Countries: problems and prospects, to be held in
1996 in Belarus.  Principal sponsor in Belarus: Ministry
of Defence;

05   Enlarged Economic Committee meetings, as agreed, on
topics related to defence conversion.

SECURITY ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Topics

01   Economic and ecological consequences of
defence-related environmental degradation;

02   Economic and ecological consequences of nuclear
disarmament;

03   Economic aspects of migration and refugees affecting
security and stability;

04   Consequences of the implementation of UN mandated
economic sanctions on socio-economic aspects of regional
stability;

05   Connections between energy supplies and State
security;

06   Social protection as a factor of economic stability;

07   Infrastructural regional projects and economic
aspects of security.

Activities

01   Workshops/Enlarged Economic Committee meetings on the
above themes;

02   Seminar on economic aspects of the impact of
migrations and refugees on State security;

03   Economic Committee with Cooperation Partners seminar
on impact and human consequences of defence-related
environmental degradation and on economic and ecological
aspects of nuclear disarmament supported, as necessary, by
Science/CCMS Committees' experts;

04   NATO Economics annual Colloquium to be organized by
the Economics Directorate.





DEFENCE EXPENDITURES/DEFENCE BUDGETS AND THEIR
RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ECONOMY

Topics

01   Interrelationship between defence
expenditures/budgets and the economy, including:
     -    defence policy implementation in an open market
economy,
     -    financing of defence, and
     -    economic problems of long-term defence budget
planning in a situation of high inflation;
     
02   Economic aspects of connections between military and
civil technologies, including economic aspects of
technological spin-off, from military expenditure to
civilian industry;

03   Economic factors in the choice between conscript army
and a professional army.

Activity

01   Workshops and Enlarged Economic Committee meetings on
the above themes and on further questions related to
Economic aspects of defence expenditures including budget
procedures and techniques, and legislative oversight of
national defence budgets.

                           SCIENCE
Topics

01   General scientific and technological policies,
including problems, perspectives and prospects;

02   Cooperation of partner scientists in NATO science
programmes primarily, but not exclusively, in the
following priority areas which are of interest to NATO and
cooperation partner countries:

     --   disarmament technologies: scientific problems
related to disarmament technologies including the disposal
of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and defence
industry conversion. 

     --   environmental security: scientific problems
related to the environment including the reclamation of
contaminated military sites, regional environmental
problems and natural and man-made disasters;

     --   high technology: scientific problems related to
high technology  including information science, materials
science, biotechnology and energy conservation and supply
(non-nuclear);

     --   science and technology policy: problems related
to human  resources including science policy, technology
transfer, innovation, management, intellectual property
rights and career mobility (e.g. the redeployment of
defence-industry scientists);

     --   computer networking: strategies to enhance the
scientific dialogue between NATO countries and cooperation
partner countries using computer networking.

Activities

01   Meeting of the Science Committee with counterparts
from cooperation partner countries at least once a year;

02   Participation of scientists from cooperation partner
countries in Advanced Study Institutes (ASI) and Advanced
Research Workshops ARW) as well as the holding of such
meetings in cooperation partner countries;
     
03   Participation of scientists from cooperation partner
countries in Collaborative Research Grants, Linkage
Grants, Science Fellowships, and selected Science for
Stability projects; 

04   Sending proceedings, in hardcopy or computerized
format, of NATO's scientific meetings to a central library
in each cooperation partner country and disseminating
other literature on the Science programme      to
scientists in cooperation partner countries;

05   Sponsoring visits of experts to cooperation partner
demonstration  projects and providing other assistance in
initiating such projects;

06   Sponsoring visits of experts from cooperation partner
countries invited  by project directors in NATO member
countries;

07   Assisting cooperation partners through the use of
NATO's network of referees and experts;

08   Examining how computer networks can facilitate
contacts and promote more effective cooperation among
scientists through the use of Networking Infrastructure
Grants and Networking Supplements to Linkage Grants.




             CHALLENGES OF MODERN SOCIETY (CCMS)

Topics

01   Defence-related and disarmament-related environmental
issues;

02   Additional pilot study topics of interest to
cooperation partners.

Activities

01   Meeting of the Committee on the Challenges of Modern
Society with counterparts from cooperation partner
countries at least once a year; 

02   Participation of cooperation partners' experts in
pilot study meetings, workshops, conferences, seminars,
and holding pilot study meetings in
     cooperation partner countries;

03   Dissemination of information on CCMS pilot studies,
workshops, conferences and seminars, as well as approved
reports to cooperation partners; (1994/95 WP) 

04   The following pilot study topics to be pursued:
     -    Environmental aspects of reusing former military
lands
     -    Protecting civil populations from toxic material
spills during movements of military goods
     -    Cross-border environmental problems emanating
from defence-related installations and
activities (Phase II)
     -    Management of industrial toxic wastes and
substance research 
     -    Air pollution transport and diffusion over
coastal urban areas
     -    Deprived urban areas
     -    Evaluation of demonstrated and emerging remedial
action
          Technologies for the treatment of contaminated
land and groundwater
     -    Indoor air quality (Phase II)
     -    Methodology, focalization, evaluation and scope
of the environmental impact assessment
     -    New agricultural technologies

05   Active consideration of new pilot study proposals
made by either NATO or cooperation partner countries.




                     INFORMATION

Topics

01   Contribution to increased understanding of NATO and
its policies and to a more informed debate on security
matters;

02   Exploration of expectations including public
expectations of the information programme;

03   Dissemination of information by electronic means.

Activities

01   Meetings of the Committee on Information and Cultural
Relations (CICR) with cooperation partners;

02   Information about NATO and its policies will be made
available to target audiences in cooperation partner
countries, including selected institutions and
organizations, inter alia through embassies of NATO member 
countries serving as contact points and other diplomatic
liaison channels;

03   Continue and further intensify information-related
cooperation with institutions established in cooperation
partner countries interested and able to provide the
necessary facilities, support personnel and services;

04   Visits to NATO by target groups;

05   Sponsorship of a number of experts from cooperation
partner countries to attend security-related seminars in
Allied countries;

06   Co-sponsorship with cooperation partners of
seminars/workshops in cooperation partner countries;

07   Presentations by NATO speakers in cooperation partner
countries;

08   Democratic Institutions Fellowships (individual and
institutional support); 

09   Increased dissemination of NATO documentation and
information materials in languages of cooperation
partners.



                        PFP TOPICS

Partnership for Peace activities, which are conducted
under the framework of the NACC, will take place on the
following topics:
 
01   Cooperation in the field of Arms Control and
Disarmament;

02   Defence Planning and Budgeting;

03   Defence policy/strategy/military doctrine;
     
04   Defence Structures:

     -    The structure, organisation and roles of Defence
Ministries;

     -    The structure and organisation of the armed
forces including command structure;

     -    Reserve forces and mobilisation;

     -    Personnel issues.

05   Democratic Control of Forces:

     -    Democratic control over the armed forces and
promotion of civil-military relations in a
democratic society;

     -    Legal framework for military forces.

06   Crisis Management;

07   Planning, organisation and management of national
defence procurement programmes:

     -    Governmental organisation for defence equipment
procurement;

     -    Defence procurement planning systems and projet
management concepts;

     -    Defence procurement policy and procedures, to
include legal framework, contracting methods and
government/ industry relations.

08   Consultation, Command and Control Systems and
procedures, including Communications and Information
Systems (CIS) and interoperability aspects;
     
09   Air Defence related matters:

     -    Air Defence concepts, procedures and
terminology;

     -    Air emergency and cross-border air movements;

     -    Air Defence training concepts.

10   Air traffic management/control:

     -    Civil-military airspace coordination;

     -    Coordination of airspace requirements for
multinational air exercises.     

11   Standardisation and interoperability:

     -    Material and technical aspects of
standardisation and interoperability;

     -    Procedures and in-service equipment in
peacekeeping, search and rescue, humanitarian and other
agreed exercises and operations;

     -    Military medicine.

12   Planning, organization and management of national
defence research and development programmes;

13   Consumer Logistics:

     -    Storage, movement, distribution, maintenance,
evacuation, and disposition of material;

     -    Transport of personnel;

     -    Acquisition of services;

     -    Medical and health service support;

     -    Acquisition or construction, maintenance,
operation, and disposition of facilities.

14   Civil emergency planning;

15   Exchange of information in the field of military 
infrastructure;


16   Cooperation in peacekeeping (conceptual, planning and
operational) within the framework of the PMSC Ad Hoc Group
on Cooperation in Peacekeeping;

17   Education and Training:

     -    Establishment of a baseline of common knowledge,
skills and
          experience for enhancing cooperative military
relations;

     -    Familiarisation with and harmonization of armed
forces' concepts, doctrines, procedures and structures,
including the military's role in an democratic society;

     -    Improvement of capabilities for the development
and application of common doctrines and procedures for
education and training, including fields such as language
training, communications, crisis management and
environmental issues.

18   NATO/PfP exercises in the fields of peacekeeping,
search and rescue and humanitarian operations, other
exercises and related activities for:

     -    Familiarization with political-military
interaction and crisis management techniques and responses
in a simulated operational environment;


     -    Development, application and refinement of
command and control arrangements, including staff
procedures and military and public information;

     -    Development application and refinement of
combined and joint operational procedures, including
tactics, Standard Operating  Procedures (SOPs), Rules of
Engagement (ROE), logistics and communications;

     -    Validation and refinement of relevant
Interoperability Objectives for those Partners
participating in the Planning and Review Process (PARP);

     -    Promotion of mutual understanding,
interoperability and cooperation among Allied and Partner
nation forces.

19   Co-ordination of PfP Activities.


                  PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

Activities of the PMSC Ad Hoc Group on Cooperation in
Peacekeeping, which are undertaken within the framework of
the NACC, are given below.


01   Development of a common understanding of concepts and
requirements for peacekeeping:

     --   continue exchanges of views on concepts,
terminology and national doctrines on peacekeeping within
the NACC/PfP framework.  Specifically:

          *    discuss and exchange views on humanitarian
aspects of peacekeeping, including civil-military
relations;

          *    examine concrete lessons learned from
peacekeeping operations.

     --   continue to expand contacts with the United
Nations and OSCE on peacekeeping issues, and encourage
exchanges of information on this subject with other
concerned bodies such as the European
          Commission and the Western European Union;

     --   public relations:  a seminar to be held in 1996.

02   Cooperation in planning for peacekeeping activities

     --   command and control:  expert seminar, plus
further development of the topic based on conceptual
developments (under first sub-topic in 01 above) and
practical experience.

03   Development of a common technical basis in
peacekeeping 
 --   Communications:  Further discussion on the
development of a peacekeeping communications concept and
the possible implementation of a communications database. 
Link the work, as appropriate, to Command and Control work
in II.A. above.

04   Peacekeeping training, education and exercises

     --   Training Course Handbook:  Update (Danish lead);


     --   Training Standardisation Pamphlet:  Update
(Danish lead);

     --   Exercises:  Consideration of lessons learned,
based on after-action reports of NATO/PfP
exercises and on national inputs on bilateral,
multilateral and NATO/PfP exercises; and application in
          other areas of practical cooperation;

     --   Briefings by nations on national peacekeeping
training.

05   Logistics aspects of peacekeeping

     --   Update the Compendium of lessons learned, based
on national inputs;

     --   Discuss logistic peacekeeping issues in Senior
NATO Logisticians Conference with Partners;

     --   Support Exercise COOPERATIVE SUPPORT 1996, a
logistics peacekeeping exercise/seminar, and the NATO
Logistics Course.