Without the secure environment provided by NATO and its Partners, the OSCE could not have organised democratic elections. Without IFOR and SFOR, the economic and political reconstruction efforts led by the EU, the UN and many non-governmental organisations could not have started. So the project of a new European security architecture has been finally put back on track. And NATO played a crucial role in this. Close cooperation between our major institutions has still to be improved.
Different institutions have different memberships.
If these three processes remain coherent, we will get a workable system. As long as these processes evolve in a mutually reinforcing way, we will be better able to resolve crises and conflicts in a cooperative fashion. And a dynamic NATO is a key factor in ensuring that these processes remain on track. Nothing could illustrate this better that our Madrid Summit last July. The decisions and initiatives it generated reaffirmed NATO's central role in building a new security architecture.