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Resolution 317 on NATO Structural Reform and ESDP
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The Assembly, 1. Declaring that allied countries remain committed to defend one another against all threats to our security from any hostile governments or non-state actors; 2. Finding that terrorism constitutes a grave threat to the security of the Alliance today, which requires a comprehensive approach involving all means at our disposal; 3. Recalling that the NATO Allies invoked Article 5 of the Washington Treaty for the first time in response to the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States; 4. Observing that while military personnel from many allied countries contributed to Operation Enduring Freedom, NATO as an institution played a limited role; 5. Recognizing that NATO must reform its structures in order to be able to command missions outside of the Euro-Atlantic region if so directed by its member governments; 6. Aware of discussions to transform the NATO command structure to create a streamlined organization that would be capable of deploying headquarters and forces wherever they are needed to combat threats to the security of the Alliance; 7. Commending work on NATO's force structure review, which is developing a set of high-readiness headquarters able to command out-of-area operations at the corps level; 8. Pointing out that more deployable forces are needed for such missions; 9. Supporting the new capabilities initiative agreed by NATO defence ministers that will focus on a small number of capabilities essential to the full range of Alliance missions; 10. Reasserting our determination to strengthen the European pillar of the Alliance and to support the building and strengthening of the European Security and Defence Policy in such a way that it will add to the strength of the Alliance; 11. Remembering that the European Union's Helsinki Headline Goal calls for the EU to develop by 2003 the ability to deploy a corps-sized rapid reaction force, with appropriate air and naval assets, to enhance the credibility of common foreign policy objectives and, if necessary, to manage crises when NATO as a whole chooses not to be engaged; 12. Recognising the progress made to conclude the Berlin Plus agreements between NATO and the EU to ensure access by the EU to NATO assets and capabilities; 13. Disappointed that ongoing disagreements obstruct the conclusion of the Berlin Plus agreements between NATO and the EU despite all progress already achieved, stopping the EU's ability to conduct crisis management operations; 14. Supporting efforts to overcome the current impasse concerning permanent arrangements between NATO and the EU; 15. URGES member governments and parliaments of the North Atlantic Alliance: a. to make the fight against terrorism and against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction a central mission of the Alliance; b. to reform NATO structures to enable the Alliance to carry out this mission; c. to ensure that the new command structure enables NATO to deploy headquarters wherever the Alliance needs to perform its missions; d. to develop national armed forces that can be deployed and sustained wherever they are needed to combat threats to the security of the Alliance; e. to fulfil their NATO Force Goals, and to make these goals transparent so that parliaments and publics can monitor compliance; f. to work out appropriate arrangements with the European Union to enable it in the spirit of genuine partnership to draw on NATO assets and capabilities for its Rapid Reaction Force whenever NATO as a whole chooses not to be engaged; g. to work to ensure coherence between the proposed NATO Response Force and the EU Rapid Reaction Force and to ensure complementarity of NATO and EU capability initiatives; 16. URGES member governments and parliaments of the North Atlantic Alliance that are also members of the European Union to fulfil the Helsinki Headline Goal by the 2003 target date. __________________ |
