We need to promote NATO's philosophy that a risk to one of us is a risk to all of us. We also need to promote the educational value of NATO's integrated military structure. Thus, our young officers will learn that NATO's interests need to prevail against narrowly defined national interests, and that is very important for the future of Europe. In the new NATO, all members must subscribe to these principles. The third challenge I see is the new risks that we face .
Today there is no such thing as regional security.
Europeans have to look beyond Europe. The decisions of the North Atlantic Council meeting in Berlin announced a turning point in NATO's history in this regard, since now NATO will respond to challenges originating on the periphery of the NATO treaty area if they become a threat to NATO's security. But questions remain whether this step is sufficient to maintain peace in such a complex world as that described by Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello, when he hinted at the gamut of problems connected with humanitarian interventions. In addition to deciding to respond to challenges on NATO's periphery, the NAC in Berlin also set three objectives. It means the need to develop an adapted command and force structure in which all 16 Alliance members participate and which includes Combined Joint Task Force implementation and enables ESDI to develop in one single multinational structure.