Active engagement in cooperative security: a more efficient and flexible partnership policy

Over the past two decades, NATO has reached out to partners to help build
cooperative security together. The results have proven the value, and the importance, of
this broad cooperation. NATO’s partnerships make a clear and valued contribution to
Allied security, to international security more broadly and to defending and advancing the
values of individual liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law, on which the
Alliance is based. Commitment to these values remains fundamental to NATO's
partnership policy. Allies and partners remain committed to fulfil in good faith the
obligations of the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of the Universal
Declaration on Human Rights. The Alliance's partner relationships are based on
reciprocity, mutual benefit and mutual respect.