APRIL 3-4 NATO SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE PART 2 OF 2

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SUBJECT: APRIL 3-4 NATO SUMMIT COMMUNIQUE PART 2 OF 2

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1. (U) The following communique was approved and released by
NATO Heads of State and Government following the Summit of
April 3-4:

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38. The security and stability of the Gulf region is
significant to the Alliance. We are pleased with the
significant progress achieved in the framework of the
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) since its establishment
in 2004. Political consultations and practical cooperation
have intensified, and new opportunities have been created in
key areas such as energy security, maritime security and
training and education, We encourage our ICI partners to
develop ICPs. We value highly the support provided by our ICI
partners to NATO's operations and missions.


39. Within the context of our Mediterranean Dialogue and
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, we welcome the substantial
progress made in implementing the first phase of the NATO
Training Cooperation Initiative, including the establishment
of a dedicated faculty at the NATO Defense College and the
inauguration of the faculty's NATO Regional Cooperation
Course.


40. Since Bucharest, NATO's relationships with other partners
across the globe have continued to expand and deepen,
reflecting their increasing importance to the Alliance's
goals in operations, security cooperation, and efforts,
through political dialogue, to build common understanding of
emerging issues that affect Euro-Atlantic security, notably
Afghanistan. These relationships, which take many forms,
offer a flexible means for countries to pursue dialogue and
cooperation with NATO, and we reaffirm our intent to enhance
them, on a case-by-case basis. We welcome the significant
contributions made by many partners to NATO-led operations,
and in particular those by Australia, Japan, New Zealand and
the Republic of Korea to our mission in Afghanistan.


41. The Black Sea region continues to be important for
Euro-Atlantic security. We welcome the progress in
consolidation of regional cooperation and ownership, through
effective use of existing initiatives and mechanisms, and
based on transparency, complementarity and inclusiveness. We
will continue to support, as appropriate, efforts based on
regional priorities and dialogue among the Black Sea states
and with the Alliance.


42. We have already achieved much in transforming our forces,
capabilities and structures. The continuation of this process
is crucial as it underpins the Alliance's ability to conduct
the full range of its missions, including collective defence
and crisis response operations on and beyond Alliance
territory. Against this background we must continue to work
individually and collectively to improve, both in quality and
quantity, the capabilities needed to meet the priorities we
set in the Comprehensive Political Guidance.


43. We will continue to adapt NATO's forces, structures and
procedures to meet the changing security challenges we face.
We welcome the progress that has been made to make NATO's
command structure more effective and efficient and look
forward to further efforts in this regard. NATO's defence

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planning process must enable Allies to deliver the
capabilities needed to deal with current and future
challenges within a comprehensive approach. We therefore also
welcome agreement on a new, defence planning process which
puts the emphasis squarely on delivery of capabilities we
need.


44. We are determined to provide the forces required for the
full range of Alliance missions. We continue to support
efforts to make our forces more deployable, sustainable,
interoperable and, thus, more usable. By design, the NATO
Response Force (NRF) has an important role in providing a
rapidly deployable, credible force for the Alliance and in
driving transformation and capability development. It needs
to be able to respond to new and unpredicted crises for
either collective defence or crisis operations beyond
Alliance borders. We expect our Defence Ministers, at their
meeting in June, to agree on measures to achieve these aims
by improving NRF resourcing and employability.


45. The Alliance will further develop the capabilities and
policies required to conduct the full range of our missions,
to remedy specific shortages, and to deal with emerging
challenges and threats, at the same time facilitating an
equitable sharing of burdens, risks and costs. We will
vigorously pursue our work developing and fielding key
enablers, such as mission-capable helicopters, strategic lift
and the Alliance Ground Surveillance system. We support the
greater use of multinational solutions for additional
capability development including increased collective
responsibility for logistics. We will also continue to pursue
many of these initiatives in the existing framework of
NATO-EU cooperation in capability development. We encourage
our Defence Ministers to agree on an Action Plan to improve
the interoperability of our armed forces at their meeting in
June 2009.


46. In view of the imminent achievement of full operational
capability of the NATO Special Operations Coordination Centre
(NSCC) initiated at our 2006 Riga Summit, we invite the
Council in Permanent Session to exploit this success further,
including by examining the benefits of a new multinational
Headquarters.


47. We are committed to provide, individually and
collectively, the financial resources necessary for our
Alliance to perform the operational and transformational
tasks we demand of it. We will strive to prioritise our
defence spending and programming for improved efficiency in
delivering the ability to conduct the full range of Alliance
missions. This is particularly important in the current
economic situation.


48. We will continue to improve and demonstrate more clearly
our ability to meet emerging challenges on and beyond
Alliance territory, including on its periphery, inter alia by
ensuring adequate planning, exercises and training.


49. We remain committed to strengthening communication and
information systems that are of critical importance to the
Alliance against cyber attacks, as state and non-state actors
may try to exploit the Alliance's and Allies' growing
reliance on these systems. To prevent and respond to such
attacks, in line with our agreed Policy on Cyber Defence, we
have established a NATO Cyber Defence Management Authority,

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improved the existing Computer Incident Response Capability,
and activated the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of
Excellence in Estonia. We will accelerate our cyber defence
capabilities in order to achieve full readiness. Cyber
defence is being made an integral part of NATO exercises. We
are further strengthening the linkages between NATO and
Partner countries on protection against cyber attacks. In
this vein, we have developed a framework for cooperation on
cyber defence between NATO and Partner countries, and
acknowledge the need to cooperate with international
organisations, as appropriate.


50. Ballistic missile proliferation poses an increasing
threat to Allies' forces, territory, and populations. Missile
defence forms part of a broader response to counter this
threat. We therefore reaffirm the conclusions of the
Bucharest Summit about missile defence.


51. In response to our tasking at the Bucharest Summit to
develop options for a comprehensive missile defence
architecture to extend coverage to all European Allied
territory and populations, several technical architecture
options were developed and subsequently assessed from a
politico-military perspective. We recognise that additional
work is still required. In this context, a future United
States' contribution of important architectural elements
could enhance NATO elaboration of this Alliance effort.


52. Based on the technical and political military analysis of
these options, we judge that missile threats should be
addressed in a prioritised manner that includes consideration
of the level of imminence of the threat and the level of
acceptable risk. We received a comprehensive analysis of the
technical architecture options and agree to its overall
assessment that, even though some of these options do not
meet the Bucharest tasking, each of them has its strengths
and shortcomings.


53. Bearing in mind the principle of the indivisibility of
Allied security as well as NATO solidarity, we task the
Council in Permanent Session, taking into account the
Bucharest Summit tasking, to present recommendations
comprising architecture alternatives, drawing from the
architectural elements already studied, for consideration at
our next Summit. To inform any future political decision on
missile defence, we also task the Council in Permanent
Session to identify and undertake the policy, military and
technical work related to a possible expanded role of the
Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (ALTBMD)
programme beyond the protection of NATO deployed forces to
include territorial missile defence.


54. We support increased missile defence cooperation between
Russia and NATO, including maximum transparency and
reciprocal confidence-building measures to allay any
concerns. We reaffirm our readiness to explore the potential
for linking United States, NATO and Russian missile defence
systems at an appropriate time and we encourage the Russian
Federation to take advantage of United States' missile
defence cooperation proposals.


55. In Bucharest we reaffirmed that arms control, disarmament
and non-proliferation will continue to make an important
contribution to peace, security, and stability. In response
to our tasking to the Council in Permanent Session to keep

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these issues under active review, we note its report on
raising NATO's profile in this field. The report displays a
broad range of activities being undertaken, including
continuing efforts in preventing the spread of weapons of
mass destruction, and destruction of excess small arms and
light weapons and surplus munitions. The Allies continue to
seek to enhance security and stability at the lowest possible
level of forces consistent with the Alliance's ability to
provide for collective defence and to fulfil the full range
of its missions. NATO and Allies should continue contributing
to international efforts in the area of arms control,
disarmament and non-proliferation. We aim at achieving a
higher level of public awareness of NATO's contribution in
these fields. We task the Council in Permanent Session to
continue to keep these issues under active review, as part of
NATO's broad response to security challenges.


56. NATO Allies reaffirm that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT),with its three mutually reinforcing pillars,
remains important and Allies will contribute constructively
with a view to achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT
Review Conference. Alliance nations have dramatically reduced
nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and remain committed to
all objectives enshrined in the Treaty. We call for universal
compliance with the NPT and universal adherence to the
Additional Protocol to the International Atomic Energy Agency
Safeguard Agreement and full compliance with UNSCR 1540. We
will intensify our efforts to prevent state and non-state
actors from accessing WMD and their means of delivery. In
this regard, we endorse NATO's comprehensive strategic-level
policy for preventing the proliferation of WMD and defending
against Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear
threats. We remain deeply concerned about the Iranian nuclear
and ballistic missile programmes and related proliferation
risks and call on Iran to comply with relevant UNSCRs. We are
also deeply concerned by the programmes and proliferation
activities of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and
call on it to fully comply with relevant UNSCRs.


57. We place the highest value on the CFE Treaty regime with
all its elements. We underscore the strategic importance of
the CFE Treaty, including its flank regime, as a cornerstone
of Euro-Atlantic security. We reiterate our endorsement at
the Bucharest Summit of the statement of the North Atlantic
Council of 28 March 2008 and fully support the December 2008
statement of our Foreign Ministers. We reaffirm the
Alliance's commitment to the CFE Treaty regime, as expressed
in the Alliance's position contained in paragraph 42 of the
2006 Riga Summit Declaration, the final statement by Allies
at the CFE Extraordinary Conference in Vienna, and Alliance
statements reflecting subsequent developments. We are deeply
concerned that, since 12 December 2007, Russia has continued
its unilateral "suspension" of its legal obligations under
the CFE Treaty. Furthermore, Russia's actions in Georgia have
called into question its commitment to the fundamental OSCE
principles on which stability and security in Europe are
based: principles which underpin the CFE Treaty. These
actions run counter to our common objective of preserving the
long-term viability of the CFE regime and we call upon Russia
to resume its implementation without further delay. Because
of our commitment to cooperative security and fulfilment of
international agreements as well as the importance we attach
to the confidence that results from military transparency and
predictability, we have continued fully to implement the
Treaty despite Russia's "suspension." However, the current

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situation, where NATO CFE Allies implement the Treaty while
Russia does not, cannot last indefinitely. We offered a set
of constructive and forward-looking proposals for parallel
actions on key issues, including steps by NATO Allies on
ratification of the Adapted CFE Treaty and by Russia on
outstanding commitments related to Georgia and the Republic
of Moldova. We continue to believe that these proposals
address all of Russia's stated concerns. We continue to urge
Russia to work cooperatively with us and other concerned CFE
States Parties to reach agreement on the basis of the
parallel actions package so that together we can preserve the
benefits of this landmark regime.


58. We remain concerned with the persistence of protracted
regional conflicts in the South Caucasus and the Republic of
Moldova. It is essential for all parties in these regions to
engage constructively in peaceful conflict resolution. We
call on them all to avoid steps that undermine regional
security and stability, and to respect the current
negotiation formats. We continue to support the territorial
integrity, independence and sovereignty of Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova, and will
also continue to support efforts towards a peaceful
settlement of these regional conflicts, taking into account
these principles. We welcome OSCE efforts and processes in
these regions, to which the Caucasus Stability and
Cooperation Platform could be a useful complement.


59. The Alliance will continue to consult on the most
immediate risks in the field of energy security. In Bucharest
we agreed principles which govern NATO's approach in the
field of energy security, and options and recommendations for
further activities. The Alliance has continued to implement
these recommendations. Today we have noted a "Report on
Progress Achieved in the Area of Energy Security." The
disruption of the flow of natural gas in January 2009
seriously affected a number of Allies and Partner countries.
The issues of a stable and reliable energy supply,
diversification of routes, suppliers and energy sources, and
the interconnectivity of energy networks, remain of critical
importance. Today we have declared our continuing support for
efforts aimed at promoting energy infrastructure security. In
accordance with the Bucharest decisions, we will continue to
ensure that NATO's endeavours add value and are fully
coordinated and embedded within those of the international
community, which features a number of organisations that are
specialised in energy security. We task the Council in
Permanent Session to prepare an interim report for the
Foreign Ministers' meeting in December 2009 and a further
report on the progress achieved in the area of energy
security for our consideration at our next Summit.


60. Developments in the High North have generated increased
international attention. We welcome the initiative of Iceland
in hosting a NATO seminar and raising the interest of Allies
in safety and security-related developments in the High
North, including climate change.


61. We welcome the Secretary General's report on progress in
reforming the NATO Headquarters, to achieve the fastest and
most coherent flow of sound political, military and resource
advice to support our consensual decision-making, and to
enhance our responsiveness to time-sensitive operational
needs. The proposed changes aim to improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of our processes and structures, our ability to

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integrate the different strands of NATO's work - duly
safeguarding the role of the Military Committee - and the
optimal use of resources. We endorse the Secretary General's
plans for future action and, in line with the mandate we gave
him in Bucharest, empower him to take forward this work. We
task the Council in Permanent Session to take the necessary
decisions to implement these reforms as quickly as possible.
We will review a report on implementation at our next Summit.


62. We express our gratitude to the Governments of France and
Germany for their gracious hospitality at this first
co-hosted NATO Summit. Today we have reaffirmed the
indispensable link between North America and Europe, the
enduring principle of the indivisibility of Allied security,
and our common goal of a Europe that is whole and free. We
have taken decisions on our missions and operations, the
modernisation of our capabilities, and our engagement with
other nations and organisations. We will meet next in
Portugal to approve a new Strategic Concept and give further
direction to ensure that NATO can successfully continue to
defend peace, democracy and security in the Euro-Atlantic
area and beyond.


1. Turkey recognises the Republic of Macedonia with its
constitutional name.

2. As complemented by President Sarkozy's clarifications and
correspondence on this issue

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