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Security through Partnership Foreword Contents 1. Foreword 2. Origins and evolution of Partnership 3. Essential mechanisms 4. Security dialogue and cooperation 5. Map of NATO and Partner countries 6. Peace-support operations 7. Defence reform 8. Disaster-preparedness and response 9. Security, science and the environment 10 A true Euro-Atlantic security culture Editorial Note   Editorial Note Other Formats English PDF (~3900Kb) Printable version with colour illustrations Other format This brochure seeks to explain the basic principles underlying the Euro-Atlantic Partnership and its essential mechanisms. It then focuses on five key spheres of activity – security dialogue and cooperation, peace-support operations, defence reform, disaster-preparedness, and cooperation in the areas of science and the environment – which show how Euro-Atlantic security is enhanced through Partnership and how cooperation is of genuine, practical relevance to Partner countries. Partnership activities can be seen to impact positively on reform, on the development of democratic structures, and on the participation of Partner countries in multinational cooperation as members of the wider international community. It would be impossible to do justice in a single publication to the full breadth and range of activities in which Partner countries work together with NATO. Such activities include not only the well-reported peace-support operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan but also cooperation in many other areas such as the fight against terrorism, defence reform, economic aspects of security, disaster-preparedness, arms control, logistics, air defence, airspace management, armaments, education and training, science and the environment, and information programmes. NATO has also developed special relationships with two Partner countries, Russia and Ukraine, and with the seven countries participating in the Mediterranean Dialogue. Moreover, the Alliance is exploring possibilities for cooperation with countries in the broader region of the Middle East through an initiative launched at the June 2004 Istanbul Summit. While these relationships are not covered specifically in this brochure, current and prospective cooperation with these countries builds on many of the activities and mechanisms developed in the framework of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership.

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