No. 5. (27/02/98) Part of the Speech by the Secretary General at the XXXIV Munich Conference on Security Policy,

In April next year we will celebrate NATO's 50th anniversary at our Washington Summit. This Summit should be more than a celebration of NATO's past achievements. It should first and foremost look ahead.

We will look ahead. At next year's Washington Summit:
- we will complete the accession of our first new members;
- we will adopt a new Strategic Concept, defining a new balance between NATO's traditional and new missions;
- we will have our new command structure in place, with more flexibility and a stronger European element in it;
- we will have turned the NATO-Russia relationship into a major element of the new security architecture;
- we will have firmly anchored Ukraine in a distinct relationship with NATO;
- we will have made the EAPC and the Partnership for Peace permanent fixtures of Euro-Atlantic security cooperation; and
- we will have moved closer towards a re-balanced transatlantic relationship, in which Europe and North America are sharing the burdens more equally.

This in an ambitious agenda. But in defining NATO's role for the 21st century we have every reason to be bold. For we now know that we can do far more than prevent the worst case. If we maintain the strategic consensus I outlined, we can achieve the best case: a stable Europe within a vibrant Atlantic community.

No. 5. (98/02/27) - 2. Inauguration of NATO Documentation Centre in Moscow

A ceremony will take place in Moscow on Thursday, 12 February, at 11:00 at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION) to inaugurate the NATO Documentation Centre for European Security Issues.
Senior NATO and Russian government officials will attend the ceremony. The Centre will make available in Russia official NATO documentation as well as other literature related to European Security issues. It is part of the commitment in the NATO-Russia Founding Act to improving public understanding of evolving relations between NATO and Russia.

No. 5. (27/02/98) - 3. Exercise Dynamic Response '98,

The SFOR Strategic Reserve Force, comprised of forces from six nations, will conduct an exercise in Bosnia and Herzegovina from March 25th to April 7th as part of an on-going NATO training program.

Exercise Dynamic Response '98,will refine the SFOR Strategic Reserve Force's ability to deploy into Bosnia and work together with SFOR.

The SFOR Strategic Reserve Force represents additional forces outside the region that can respond quickly to any crisis to help restore stability, if needed.

This is a training exercise and will include a Polish airborne battalion moving by rail through Croatia, a Romanian infantry battalion moving by road through the Northeast sector of Croatia, and marine units arriving by ship in Ploce and Split before moving into Bosnia and Herzegovina theatre.

Over 1,800 soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines from Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the United States will participate in the exercise where they will perform many of the same tasks performed by SFOR soldiers.