No. 11 (16/04/99)
SERVICES OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC INFORMATION CENTRE OF THE OFFICE FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT

 

PERMANENT PUBLICATIONS

 

1. Newsletter 1996-1999
topics: * the stages of NATO’s internal development can be traced weekly
- topical issues English-Hungarian
- speeches, declarations
- brief versions of communiques from Brussels
- developments in the field of Hungary’s Euroatlantic integration
* Hungarian security policy (monthly summary)
* NATO documents
Accessible via Internet, too.

 

2. North Atlantic Analyses spring 1997 – 1999

topics: * organisational changes and operation of NATO bi-weekly
issues connected with Euroatlantic integration Hungarian
* relationships between NATO Parliamentary Assembly
(NATO PA: earlier North Atlantic Assembly) and Hungary and
the summaries of the Parliamentary Assemblies
* proceedings of the security policy conferences
* description of the operations and histories of international organisations

Available in the Information Centre

OTHER SERVICES – RECEIVED INFORMATION

Materials received on a daily basis (e-mail)

 

1. NATO announcements and documents received from Brussels English

 

2. News from Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty Prague Centre English
* daily news covering a wide range of countries from Central Asia
to Eastern Europe (broken down for the individual countries)
* internal affairs in Russia

3. US state policy (United States Information Service) English
* press releases from the White House
* communiques issued by government officials

Materials received weekly (e-mail) English

 

* selected articles from leading international papers (mainly American) in full version

(received from Information USA)

 

topics: - Russia
- Transatlantic relations (USA and its European allies)
- American reforms in the armed forces
- American foreign policy

PERIODICALS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
ON A REGULAR BASIS

NATO Review quarterly
1997-1999 English
from 1999 also in Hungarian

Newsletters from the Strategic and Defence Research Institute from spring 1997
weekly
in Hungarian

Reports from NATO Parliamentary Assembly from 1995 on
available in the form of books or separate printed matter English – French
also accessible via the Internet

 

Topics: problems arising in the Euroatlantic region
(deals with the same issues as NATO)
- economy
- politics
- defence
- civil society
- science

NATO documents
* strategic documents from 1949
* NATO documents from 1994, printed and on the Internet

 

MATERIALS WHICH HAVE BEEN RECEIVED ON AN AD HOC BASIS ORGANISED ACCORDING TO THEIR TOPICS CONCERNING THE MAJOR MEMBER STATES OF NATO AND THEIR PARTNERS

- Russia
- our neighbours
- NATO reform
- NATO extension
- changes in the armed forces in Hungary
- Hungarian foreign policy
- new NATO members (Poland, Czech Republic)
- South-Eastern Europe
- Kosovo

MIXED SOURCES

- conference speeches
- periodicals
- reports rendered available for us by NATO PA

ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECURITY POLICY LIBRARY

We are setting up a security policy library in 1999. For your kind information we inform you that the procurement of the books is in process now. When the library has been set up, we shall make the full list of books available for anybody interested.