NATO at Fifty: Web Links

Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on NATO's 50th anniversary and NATO expansion.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) [1]
• Other International Organizations and Councils [2]
• Primary Documents [3]

These links complement the Institute Special Report: NATO at Fifty: New Challenges, Future Uncertainties [4].

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

NATO's 50th Anniversary

• NATO: the 50th Anniversary Homepage [5]
  Homepage of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the North Atlantic Alliance, April 4, 1949 contains links to a calendar [6] of activities and events, a photographic database, an official logo, a screen saver, and a commemorative edition of the NATO Review, with articles in PDF (requires Adobe® Acrobat® Reader [7] to view).

NATO at Fifty: The Washington Summits, April 23-25, 1999

• NATO Summit--Washington, 23-25 April 1999 [8]
  The NATO web page includes ministerial communiques, speeches, press releases, pictures and videos of the anniversary summit in Washington, DC.
• NATO Summit. April 23-25, 1999: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of European Affairs [9]
  Archived web page from the U.S. Department of State includes texts, background information about NATO, discussion of summit themes, a NATO chronology and links to related sites.

NATO: Enlargement and Membership

• NATO Homepage [10]
  Homepage of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with links to members and officials, texts, speeches, topics, publications, operations and other related sites. Includes a basic document [11] describing the founding of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, its action plan [12] for 2000-2002 and a list [13] of EAPC member states, with links to each country's official institutions (if online).
• The 19 NATO Member Countries [14]
  NATO web page listing the 19 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with links (where available online) to web pages for the Parliament, Senate, Government, Head of State, Prime Minister, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Defence, and Chief of Staff for each country. Also contains links to the Canadian Joint Delegation to NATO [15], the German Mission to NATO [16] and the U.S. Mission to NATO [17] , currently the only country delegations to NATO with a web page.
• The 9 "Aspirant" Countries
  Country information, including a map, flag and discussion of geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues from the CIA World Factbook [18] for each of the nine countries expressing an interest in joining NATO: Albania [19] , Bulgaria [20] , Estonia [21] , Latvia [22] , Lithuania [23] , Macedonia [24] , Romania [25] , Slovakia [26] , and Slovenia [27] . In addition, web sites for the foreign affairs ministries for most of these countries can be found at Foreign Affairs Ministries on the Web [28], part of the USIP Library & Links web pages.
• Expanding NATO: RFE/RL's Continuing Coverage [29]
  Reports and analysis from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's coverage of the expansion of NATO.
• NATO Enlargement [30]
  This section of the archived U.S. State Department's web site contains links to background information on the NATO enlargement and ratification process, remarks, testimony and speeches, related sites, a publication on NATO Enlargement in pdf [31] (requires Adobe® Acrobat® Reader [7] to view), a NATO chronology, 1947-1999 [32] , and specific reference to the March 1999 accession [33] of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, also known as the Visegrad Three.
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Other International Organizations and Councils

European Union (EU)

• Europa, the European Union's server [35]
  Europa contains substantive material on the European Union, its institutions and policies, official documents, publications, news and other information resources.

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) [36]
  Web site of the OSCE includes news, a newsletter, journals, press releases, a documents archive and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo [37] web pages.

Partnership for Peace (PFP)

• Partnership for Peace [38]
  NATO web page describing the Partnership for Peace organization, its member states, links to documents concerning each country on the NATO web site and links to NATO documents concerning the Partnership for Peace, including the Framework Document [39] . Elsewhere on the NATO site is a list [40] of senior government officials from PFP member countries.

Western European Union (WEU)

• Western European Union (WEU) [41]
  Web site of the Western European Union, with 10 full member states and additional associate members, observers and associate partners. The site is currently begin reconstructed.

United Nations (UN)

• United Nations Home Page (UN) [42]
  Home page of the United Nations, with links to databases, documents, publications, conferences, events, organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council [43], and other resources.
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Primary Documents

• The Alliance's New Strategic Concept [44]
  Document agreed to by the heads of state and government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Rome, November 7-8, 1991.
• Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations [45]
  An article of the Charter of the United Nations confirming "the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence," signed in San Francisco, October 24, 1945 as part of the full charter [46] .
• Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation [47]
  Signed in Paris, May 27, 1997, this document establishes the NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council.
• Harmel Report: The Future Tasks of the Alliance [48]
  This ministerial communique is a report of the North Atlantic Council from Brussels, December 13-14, 1967.
• Madrid Declaration on Euro-Atlantic Security and Cooperation [49]
  Issued by the heads of state and government at a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during the Madrid Summit, July 8, 1997, this document addresses the question of adding new members to NATO.
• The North Atlantic Treaty [50]
  Founding document of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, signed in Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949. It includes Article 5 which states that "The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all..."
• Protocol(s) to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of the Czech Republic [51] , the Republic of Hungary [52] , and the Republic of Poland [53]
  Three documents, one for the accession of each country to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, signed in Brussels, December 16, 1997.
• Study on NATO Enlargement [54]
  September 1995 NATO report on the purposes, principles, and implications of NATO enlargement for new members and Euro-Atlantic security.
• Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons [55]
  On the web site of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Nonproliferation, this posting contains narrative background information, the full text [56] of the treaty signed at Washington, London and Moscow July 1, 1968 and a list [57] of the signatories.

Updated: March 6, 2002