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4 Febr	Visit to NATO by the Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Branko Crevenkovski.
11 Febr	Inauguration of the NATO Documentation Centre for European Security Issues at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION) in Moscow.
12-18 Febr	Annual NATO Crisis Management Exercise involving active participation of NATO Partner Countries for the first time.
20 Febr	NATO announces readiness to organise and lead a mul-tinational force in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the expiry of SFORs mandate in June 1998, subject to UN Security Council mandate.
23 Febr	Visit to NATO by President Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan.
25 Febr	The Secretary General of NATO welcomes the agreement between the UN Secretary General and Iraq on a diplomatic situation to the Iraq crisis. He underlines the importance of providing immediate unconditional and unrestricted access to UNSCOM weapons inspectors in accordance with UN Security Council resolutions. The NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council discusses NATO-Russia cooperation in SFOR with a view to its continuation in the framework of the multinational force in Bosnia following the end of SFORs current mandate in June 1998.