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  1. “NATO, for its part, wants to be engaged where it can make an additional contribution. It can serve as a model of how various institutions can cooperate and in so doing can generate the positive political momentum that this meeting demonstrates. Again, I should like to thank you, Mr. President, and your Government for convening it. As we look forward to the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations Charter, that is an important and encouraging step for the future.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  2. “To repeat, dealing with the challenges of the twenty-first century requires a multi-institutional approach, a true architecture of institutions. In Europe, the key elements of such an architecture are already in place with NATO, the European Union and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Working together, those organizations can bring a distinct approach, but also their different capabilities, to providing for greater security. Together, they offer the chance to establish a new quality of security in Europe and beyond. Their cooperation must expand as we expand our cooperation with the United Nations. Our experience in Europe is unique; it cannot be transferred wholesale elsewhere, but it can make an impact and have a positive influence elsewhere as well.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  3. “Notwithstanding some similarities, each crisis - as many have noted here - has its own peculiarities. Hence, it does not pay to strive for strategies or models that are universally applicable. Indeed, judging from NATO's experience with regional crises, it pays to be more imaginative. I shall mention here only NATO's decisions to appoint political representatives, the Secretary-General's special representatives, first in southern Serbia, later in Macedonia and finally in Afghanistan. Initially, NATO members were perhaps sceptical of that effort, but it has become a characteristic of our engagement in dealing with peace support operations. And it shows that, in fact, we must be flexible in managing these situations.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  4. “The long record of NATO-United Nations interaction and operations in support of training and in exercises in education has underscored the merit of an ever- deepening dialogue in ensuring the transparency of our efforts. But we should examine options to go forward. That is why I am pleased to note that just recently a United Nations team visited NATO to gain insights into how NATO plans peace support operations and whether NATO commands can offer further support to the United Nations in that area in the future. While that may fall short of a structured relationship, it bodes well for a future discussion between our organizations to cooperate pragmatically and without inhibitions. That brings me to my third point: the need for a flexible and pragmatic approach to regional cooperation.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  5. “Secondly, we need to reflect on how to build a more structured relationship between NATO and the United Nations. In our collaboration so far in the Balkans and in Afghanistan, cooperation has been particularly good, as we say, on the ground, and we have developed means of cooperating with the United Nations representatives in Sarajevo, in Kabul and in other areas. Those things must continue. We also regularly inform the Secretary-General and the Council about our activities. To advance that goal, we have liaison arrangements here at the United Nations that have proved very useful. The groundwork for such enhanced cooperation has certainly been laid.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  6. “NATO has proved its ability to act outside Europe - as our recent summit declaration indicated - wherever threats, crises or challenges arise. As Secretary-General Annan argued in his address to NATO and parliamentarians last March, he could also envisage NATO playing a role in Africa, either directly or over the horizon. Such a role is not likely being discussed, but we think that NATO's recent offer to help Iraq indicates that NATO and the United Nations in fact need to prepare for the possibility of cooperation in regions other than Europe and Central Asia. It is in that context that I would also recall the decision taken by NATO's recent summit in Istanbul to develop its cooperation with its Mediterranean dialogue partners and to open a discussion with other countries in the broader Middle East.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  7. “We all know that to fight terrorism effectively, the response must be multifaceted and comprehensive, and that requires continued close cooperation among international organizations. The Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee has an important role to play in that respect, and NATO welcomes the recent enhancement of that body through the creation of its Executive Directorate. We believe that the issue of terrorism, as well as the threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, will warrant being added to the agenda of our regular and intensive discussions, as the Secretary-General has indicated. In our long-standing cooperation in peace operations, I also see room for further improvement.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  8. “But that good record has been set, and we should look to the future and, to possibilities for additional cooperation. Let me raise three areas where, I believe, we can develop such cooperation. First, NATO and the United Nations should seek to broaden their areas of dialogue. We now have, and should continue, regular exchanges with the Secretariat, both the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Department of Political Affairs. The current dialogue naturally concentrates on our peace support operations. But as Afghanistan has demonstrated, what we call failed States and terrorism are sometimes connected. Hence, our peace support operations, such as the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), are often based in the effort to combat terrorism.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  9. “Although the alliance does not consider itself formally a regional organization under Chapter VIII of the United Nations Charter, NATO's transition from a purely collective-defence organization into a security manager in a broad sense has enabled it to act in that same spirit, first in Europe and now beyond. NATO is currently undertaking United Nations-mandated peace support operations in the Balkans and Afghanistan and is now exploring options to help train Iraqi security forces, in close consultation with the interim Government in Baghdad, in response to the call of this Council. It is not important today to recall the history of interaction between the United Nations and NATO, from the early cooperation in Bosnia all the way to Afghanistan.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  10. “Indeed, since the end of the cold war, the interdependence between NATO and the United Nations has consistently grown. Since the cold war ended, the United Nations has been able to play a much more visible and more welcome role in managing global security. That role has also put tremendous burdens on the Organization - politically, militarily and financially. Not surprisingly, therefore, the past decade has also seen a stronger reliance on regional organizations, not as a challenge to the primary role of the United Nations, but, rather, to support it. NATO is proud to be one of those organizations.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  11. “The breadth and diversity of these challenges can be addressed only once we adopt a broad concept of security - a concept which, as many others have said, moves beyond military matters alone and includes political, economic and social elements. Only such a broader approach will enable us to move beyond dealing with mere symptoms. To put such a broad approach to security into practice requires the cooperation of all major institutions - global, regional and subregional. Over the past decade, such cooperation has emerged, including between the United Nations and NATO. After four decades of respectful distance between them, both institutions have come a long way, not only in formulating common goals, but, most importantly, in pursuing them together.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  12. “Our new century offers no shortage of challenges, and, under the United Nations, all the organizations that are represented in today's discussion have recognized them and are trying to deal with them. Globalization in this century offers our societies the opportunity to become more independent, creative and prosperous, but it also makes them more vulnerable. The rapid dissemination of technology and information makes entirely new ways of production available to many people, but it has also brought the spectre of more States' developing weapons of mass destruction and the spread of small arms and light weapons. More than in any other place, in this city we are aware also of the challenge of terrorism and the risk it presents to us all. Regional conflicts confront us with a cruel choice between costly indifference and engagement.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source

  13. “Mr. Simmons: It gives me great pleasure today to address this gathering on behalf of the Secretary- General of NATO and to represent that organization in today's very important discussion. Allow me first to express my thanks and congratulations to Romania for having called for and prepared this timely and important event. I should like also to thank the Prime Minister of Romania and you, Mr. Foreign Minister, for joining us in this important discussion. I also very much welcome the participation of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and his comments, which show his own confidence in, and important stress on, the cooperation between regional organizations and the United Nations.”

    2004-07-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.5007 (2004) · source