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RESOLUTION 324 on ALLIED OPERATIONS IN IRAQ

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presented by the Defence and Security Committee

The Assembly,

1. Recognizing the divisions in the transatlantic Alliance caused by the recent military action in Iraq;

2. Welcoming the efforts of NATO’s Secretary General and NATO members to overcome those divisions;

3. But acknowledging that the Allies must find ways to co-operate to protect their mutual security interests;

4. Recognizing that the successful reconstruction of Iraq as a peaceful sovereign state respectful of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, is one of those core interests, and that it will shape relations between the West and the Muslim world for decades;

5. Further recognizing that failure to accomplish this task would carry extremely grave consequences for global security, the struggle against terrorism, and the stability of moderate regimes in the Middle East;

6. Understanding that the threats posed by instability in the Middle East are shared by both Europe and North America;

7. Recognizing that 11 members of the 19 current members of the Alliance and five of the seven candidate members already have forces on the ground participating in operations in Iraq;

8. Noting that NATO is providing support to the Polish-led force in Iraq;

9. Recalling that NATO is successfully conducting peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina;

10. Commending the Alliance for assuming responsibility for ISAF in August 2003 in order to help the United Nations support the legitimate government of Afghanistan, to project stability beyond Kabul and to make more rapid progress in the reconstruction of the country;

11. Further recalling that NATO is conducting operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, to arrest war crimes suspects;

12. Noting that many European members of NATO are also involved in police missions in the Balkans as part of European Union initiatives;

13. Recognizing that many of those experiences and the skills gained from those operations would be extremely useful in the post-war stabilization of Iraq;

14. Affirming that NATO remains the most effective military-political alliance in existence;

15. Remembering that NATO’s founding documents underline the importance of respect for human rights and democratic governance, and that this ambition is at the heart of the allied effort in Iraq;

16. URGES member governments and parliaments of the North Atlantic Alliance:

a. to consider a range of options for a formal role for NATO in the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq;

b. to provide the necessary and available means to assist in the reconstruction of Iraq and to further strengthen the role of the United Nations in Iraq;

c. to work together to ensure that political control of Iraq is returned to the Iraqi people as soon as practicable in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1511.
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