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.

                                *   *   *

                 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

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