PRESS COMMUNIQUE M-NACC-2(92)110                      For Immediate Release
(REVISED)                                                18th December 1992



                    WORK PLAN FOR DIALOGUE, PARTNERSHIP
                           AND COOPERATION 1993

                Issued at the meeting of the North Atlantic
              Cooperation Council held at NATO Headquarters,
                      Brussels on 18th December 1992


Introduction

          The Foreign Ministers and Representatives of the member
countries of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council have agreed
to the following Work Plan for 1993 building on the foundations
of dialogue, partnership and cooperation already established.

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                  POLITICAL AND SECURITY RELATED MATTERS

Topics:

--   Political and security related matters;

--   Conceptual approaches to arms control and disarmament;

--   Conceptual and operational aspects related to peacekeeping;

--   Nuclear disarmament and the security of new non-nuclear
     weapon states;


Activities:

--   Consultations of the Political Committee with cooperation
     partners, including as appropriate with experts, as a rule
     every two months;

--   Consultations on specific issues in brainstorming format at
     Ambassadorial level;



--   Consultations on peacekeeping and related matters, starting
     in a brainstorming format at Ambassadorial level followed
     by ad hoc meetings of political-military experts, as agreed
     by Ambassadors, leading to cooperation among interested
     NACC members in preparation for peacekeeping activities,
     including: joint sessions on planning of peacekeeping
     missions; joint participation in peacekeeping training; and
     consideration of possible joint peacekeeping exercises;

--   Special consultations with cooperation partners on regional
     security issues, including enlarged Political Committee
     meetings focused on such issues;

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


               DEFENCE PLANNING ISSUES AND MILITARY MATTERS

Topics:

--   Principles and key aspects of strategy including crisis
     management, defensiveness, sufficiency and flexibility;

--   Issues of defence planning;

--   Force and command structures;

--   Military contribution to conceptual approaches to all arms
     control and disarmament issues;

--   Views on military exercises;

--   Democratic control over the armed forces;

--   Planning, management and analysis of national defence
     programmes and budgets;

--   Concepts and methods of training and education in the
     defence field;

--   Consultations on concepts of modernisation of command and
     control systems, including communications and information
     systems;

--   Reserve forces including mix of active and reserve forces,
     force structures, training, categories, operational
     readiness and mobilisation;

--   Conceptual discussion on the potential role of the armed
     forces in natural and technological disaster clean-up;





Activities:

--   Consultations of the Military Committee in a cooperation
     session at Chief of Staff level, and other MC meetings with
     the cooperation partners and consultations in other
     appropriate fora;

--   Military contacts including high-level visits, staff talks
     and other exchanges, such as port visits;

--   Exploratory team and expert team visits;

--   Participation by cooperation partners in special and/or
     regular courses at the NATO Defence College and at the NATO
     School (SHAPE) at Oberammergau;

--   Continuation of invitations to MNC Seminars like SHAPEX and
     to NAC Sea Day;

--   Workshop on training and education, early 1993;

--   Seminar on Defensive Military Strategy Structures and
     Posture;

--   A special course to be held in Russia, similar to those
     taking place in NATO institutions in Rome and
     Oberammergau;


                            DEFENCE CONVERSION

Topic:

--   Defence conversion, including its human dimension.


Activities:

--   Definition of pilot projects supported by nations on the
     basis of a mechanism and procedures established by the
     Economic Committee;

--   Establishment of a data base on technical expertise and
     studies on examples of defence industry conversion in the
     NATO countries;

--   Exploratory study of the need and feasibility for
     establishing a data base on defence industry to be
     converted in cooperation partner countries.






                              ECONOMIC ISSUES

Topic:

--   Inter-relationship of defence expenditure and budgets with
     the economy.


Activities:

--   Consultations of the Economic Committee in sessions
     reinforced by experts with cooperation partners every
     3 months;

--   Participation of partner countries in the annual NATO
     colloquium on economic developments.


                                  SCIENCE

Topic:

--   Participation of cooperation partners' scientists in NATO
     science programmes giving emphasis to priority areas of
     interest to NATO and Cooperation Partners.


Activities:

--   Meeting of the Science Committee with counterparts from
     cooperation partner countries once a year;

--   Attendance of scientists from cooperation partner countries
     in the new Advanced Research Perspective Programme
     activities (ARPP) and in Advanced Study Institutes (ASI)
     and Advanced Research Workshops (ARW) (approximately 2,000
     scientists from cooperation partner countries);

--   Holding ARPP, ASI and ARW meetings in cooperation partner
     countries (approximately 25 meetings);

--   Participation of scientists from cooperation partner
     countries in the Collaborative Research Grants Programme
     (approximately 130 grants);

--   Sending proceedings of NATO's scientific meetings to a
     central library in each cooperation partner country;

--   Sponsoring visits of experts to cooperation partners'
     laboratories (approximately 15 visits);

--   Sponsoring linkage grants between NATO and cooperation
     partners' laboratories (approximately 70 grants);


--   Participation of scientists from cooperation partner
     countries in the Science Fellowships Programme
     (approximately 150-200 participants);

--   Assisting cooperation partners in the assessment of
     research proposals through the use of the NATO peer review
     network of referees and experts;

--   Disseminating literature on the Science programme to
     scientists in cooperation partner countries;

--   Ways should be sought to involve Cooperation Partners in
     some Phase III projects of the Science for Stability
     Progamme.


                    CHALLENGES OF MODERN SOCIETY (CCMS)

Topics:

--   Defence-related environmental issues;

--   Pilot studies of interest to cooperation partners.


Activities:

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

--   Participation of cooperation partners' experts in pilot
     study meetings;

--   Participation of cooperation partners' experts in
     workshops, conferences and seminars related to CCMS pilot
     studies;

--   Dissemination of information on CCMS pilot studies,
     workshops, conferences and seminars, as well as approved
     reports to cooperation partners;

--   Pilot study on defence base cleanups;

--   Pilot study on protecting civil populations from toxic
     material spills during movements of military and other
     dangerous, defence-related goods;

--   Pilot study on existing cross-border environmental problems
     emanating from defence-related installations and
     activities;




                       DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

Topic:

--   Dissemination of information about NATO in the countries of
     cooperation partners


Activities:

--   A meeting of the Committee on Information and Cultural
     Relations (CICR) with cooperation partners;



--   Information about NATO will be disseminated as widely as
     possible in the countries of cooperation partners, in
     particular to the relevant institutions and organisations,
     inter alia through embassies of NATO member countries
     serving as contact points and other diplomatic liaison
     channels;

--   Close cooperation with information centres established by
     those cooperation partner countries interested and able to
     provide the necessary facilities, support personnel and
     services;

--   Visits to NATO by groups;

--   Sponsorship of a number of cooperation partners'
     representatives to attend seminars in Allied countries;1

--   Co-sponsorship with cooperation partners of
     seminars/workshops;

--   NATO speakers' tours to cooperation partner states;1

--   Expansion of Democratic Institutions Fellowships programme
     (individual and institutional);1

--   Increased dissemination of NATO documentation in
     cooperation partner states, including specialised brochures
     and video clips


                       POLICY PLANNING CONSULTATIONS

Topic:

--   A mid- and long-term foreign and security policy issue;
     such an issue might include the formulation of foreign
     policy in a democratic state


Activity:

--   A meeting of NATO's Atlantic Policy Advisory Group with
     cooperation partners


                          AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

Topic:

--   Civil-military coordination of air traffic management


Activity:

--   Two enlarged CEAC plenary sessions and, as appropriate,
     subordinate group meetings to discuss civil-military
     coordination