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The Secretary General of NATO, Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, delivered a major policy speech at the Aspen Institute in Rome on Friday, 17 September 2010. The speech focused on the next steps in European security, with NATO-Russia relations as the overriding theme.
Mr. Rasmussen recalled the summit in 2002 which produced the Rome Declaration on NATO-Russia relations, bringing into life the NATO-Russia Council (NRC). He said that the NRC record shows that Allies and Russia have come far to fulfil “a desire to build a lasting, inclusive peace in the Euro-Atlantic area, on the principles of democracy, cooperation, and the indivisibility of security of all states”.
However, the Secretary General argued that now the time has come to take next steps and he suggested “three tracks, in particular, where (…) we should look to make progress within Europe.” He identified these tracks as missile defence, conventional arms control and reducing the number of short-range nuclear weapons in Europe. “If we follow them [three tracks it] will lead to a different, better and safer Europe: where we don’t look over our shoulders for someone else’s tanks or fighters; where missile defences bind us together, and protect us too; and where steadily, the number of short-range nuclear weapons on the continent is going down”.