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Partners from..

• the Euro-Atlantic area

• the Mediterranean

• the Gulf region

• individual relationships with other partners across the globe.

41 partner countries

“cooperative security”

• one of NATO’s three essential core tasks.

• security of Euro-Atlantic region is best assured through a wide network of partner relationships with countries and organisations around the globe.

Goals of partnership

– security, peace and stability;

– cooperation on issues of common interest;

– Prepare interested eligible nations for NATO membership;

– Promote democratic values and reforms;

– Enhance support for NATO-led operations and missions;

– Enhance awareness of security developments including through early warning, with a view to preventing crises;

– Build confidence and achieve better mutual understanding, including about NATO’s role and activities, in particular though enhanced public diplomacy.

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Representation

• Partner countries are represented by Heads of Diplomatic Missions or Liaison Offices located at the NATO Headquarters.

• The Head and Staff of the Missiloloons attend NATO committee meetings in cooperation formats and represent their countries at meetings.

• at Ministerial or Summit level, Partner countries are represented by their Foreign or Defence Ministers or by their Head of State or Government.

Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI)2004

• a series of high level consultations by the

then Deputy Secretary General of NATO : Ambassador

Minuto Rizzo.• With the Gulf

Cooperation Council

Invitation

• ICI was launched at the Summit

meeting of NATO Heads of State and

Government in Istanbul, 28 June

2004.

Joining

• In the first three months of 2005Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.

• In June 2005, the United Arab Emirates.

activities of the cooperation area

• advice on defence budgeting, defence planning and civil-military relations;

• military-to-military cooperation : military exercises and training activities;

• fight against terrorism,

• the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

• civil emergency planning.

Cooperation

• Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have troops

serving under NATO command in Afghanistan

• Qatar and the United Arab Emirates supplied

warplanes for NATO’s six-month air campaign against

Libya last year.

Anatolian Eagle air combat exercises 2011

• Joined by : America , turkey , Saudi Arabia , the

United Arab Emirates and other

countries.

Why the Gulf ?