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Automated system
for management of partner programmes
During a ceremony organised on 5 September, the Ambassador of Switzerland
to NATO, Anton Thalmann, officially handed over an electronic system designed
to manage NATO's Partnership for Peace programme (PfP) to a senior NATO
official, Deputy Assistant Secretary General, Holger Pfeiffer.
The automated system, known as PRIME -Partnership Real-time Information,
Management and Exchange- allows users from NATO HQ and member countries
to plan and manage the Partnership Work Programme (PWP) and the Individual
Partnership Programmes (IPPs) over a secure internet connection in real
time.
PRIME was developed over a period of 8 months by a Swiss-Bulgarian team
led by the Zurich-based International Relations and Security Network (ISN),
in co-ordination with civilian and military staff at NATO HQ. Switzerland,
which is a NATO partner, is strongly oriented toward the development of
modern information technology.
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