...Alliance structures. An essential part of this adaptation is to build a European Security and Defense Identity within NATO, which will enable all European...required; and to reinforce the transatlantic partnership. 3 In the rush of publicity in dealing with the twin challenges to expand the Alliance and to build...

...which will enable all European Allies to take greater responsibility for their security and defence and to make a more coherent and effective contribution to the missions and activities of the Alliance. This process will permit the creation of militarily coherent and effective forces capable of operating...

...and effective to meet new challenges. Therefore we are determined to: • adapt Alliance strucmres. An essential part of this adaptation is to build a...themselves as required; and to reinforce the transatlantic parmership; • develop further our ability to carry out new roles and missions relating to conffict...

...responsibility for their common security and defence' . Two years later, NATO again declared its determination to 'build a European Security and Defence Identity...to the missions and activities of the Alliance...'. In particular, the idea was to 'facilitate. . .the use of separable military capabilities in operations...

...Para 30: ". . . Allies have take decisions to enable them to assume greater responsibilities. . ." "will enable all European Allies to make a more coherent and effective contribution to the missions ... of the Alliance;" ". . . will assist the European Allies to act by themselves as required." SC...

...require close cooperation between NATO, the WEU and, if and when appropriate, the European Union. It will enable all European Allies to make a more coherent...Alliance as an expression of our shared responsibilities; it will reinforce the transatlantic partnership; and it will assist the European Allies to act by themselves...

...the WEU and, if and when appropriate, the EU. The reference was followed by a positive assessment: It will enable all European Allies to make a more coherent...Alliance as an expression of our shared responsibilities; it will reinforce the transatlantic partnership; and it will assist the European Allies to act by themselves...

...NATO decided to 'build a European Security and Defence Identity within the Alliance','' in order to 'enable all European Allies to make a more coherent...contribution to the missions and activities of the Alliance'1" under the political control and strategic direction of the 9 Ministerial Meeting of the...

...setting up a European military framework, which, in the mid-term, will enable all European Partners to make a more coherent and effective contribution...and activities of the Alliance as an expression of shared responsibilities (NATO Ministerial Communique 1996: Article 5). Regarding this, through the...