[A-List] Global NATO: Five Continents And Growing

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Subject: [stopnato] Global NATO: Five Continents And Growing


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NATO International
Allied Command Transformation (Virginia)
January 25, 2008

NATO School hosts Partnerships Symposium
By U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Crystal M. Raner

-"NATO has developed institutionalised relations with
some 35 nations. We have developed partnership pillars
from the side of this alliance with partners in
Central Asia and the Caucasus, with our Mediterranean
Dialogue partners, with partners in the Arabian Gulf
area and even with countries far beyond the
Euro-Atlantic area, countries like Japan, New Zealand,
Australia and South Korea."
-By collaborating and cooperating, nations are
striving to meet the increasing need for...military
operations in geographical areas outside of the
Euro-Atlantic area such as Afghanistan, Iraq and
Darfur.

OBERAMMERGAU, Germany - Over 300 attendees
representing 35 nations attended the annual
Partnerships Symposium held at the NATO School in
Oberammergau, Germany January 23-24.

Known as the flagship event for NATO, the symposium is
an opportunity to bring together all of NATO's partner
nations that represent the Alliance, Partnership for
Peace, Mediterranean Dialogue and Istanbul Cooperative
Initiative.

> From across the globe, these nations gathered for the
two-day conference to discuss in an open forum how
they best believe NATO can improve its partnership
relations and collaborate on what kind of learning
technologies they would like to see implemented in the
future.

According to Assistant Secretary General for Political
Affairs and Security Policy Ambassador Martin Erdmann,
there has been much political change in NATO since the
early 90s; therefore, there is an even greater
significance for NATO listening to the partners.

"NATO has developed institutionalised relations with
some 35 nations," said Erdmann. "We have developed
partnership pillars from the side of this alliance
with partners in Central Asia and the Caucasus, with
our Mediterranean Dialogue partners, with partners in
the Arabian Gulf area and even with countries far
beyond the Euro-Atlantic area, countries like Japan,
New Zealand, Australia and South Korea."

Erdmann believes NATO can further develop its
partnership relations with nations who are not members
of NATO by implementing the same tools the Alliance
already uses with the PfP nations.

Tools such as defence reform, security policy issues
of a wider nature, and how to cope with asymmetric
threats can provide all nations an opportunity to
advance their nations strategically and
technologically, as well as contribute to global
security.

"It is not that much NATO reaching out to partners far
beyond the Euro-Atlantic area, of course, we do that
as well," Erdmann said. "But it is a two-way approach.
Those partnerships far beyond the Euro-Atlantic area
are coming to us because they feel like they are in
the same family of nations, they face the same threats
in security terms, and are exposed to an insecure
world to the same threat dimensions that we face, but
they do not have the instruments.

"They do not have a NATO.

"They do not have a security organisation where
nations stand in for each other.

"So they want to be part of this family because these
nations are based on the same values as we are.

"And why should we not offer our cooperation to those
nations? So it is as we say in English, 'it takes two
to tango,' and this is exactly what happens. It is
NATO plus those partners in a joint effort, and joint
endeavour."

No longer simply an Alliance of nations for collective
defence, today's NATO is engaged globally with an
emphasis on collective security.

The peace, security and territorial integrity of
Alliance members and partner nations is supported
through the transformation of NATO military forces and
capabilities.

New concepts, doctrine and training tools will empower
a more agile, expeditionary and effective Alliance as
it engages militarily today and in the future.

Open forum events such as the Partnerships Symposium
have proven to be advantageous for all nations
supporting the transformation of the Alliance. By
collaborating and cooperating, nations are striving to
meet the increasing need for support of current
humanitarian and military operations in geographical
areas outside of the Euro-Atlantic area such as
Afghanistan, Iraq and Darfur.

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