Securing an environment for peaceful and more stable relationships between East and West on the basis of balanced forces at the lowest possible level - Continued validity of Harmel Report of 1967 - Need for diversified, survivable and operationally flexible nuclear forces across the entire spectrum - Impact of intended unilateral force reductions by the Soviet Union and some of its allies - Incompatibility of Warsaw Pact force strengths with doctrine of 'reasonable sufficiency' - Step by step approach to ensure that NATO's nuclear forces continue to provide an effective contribution to deterrent strategy - Continued support for efforts of member countries to meet Montebello requirements - SACEUR's Nuclear Weapons Requirements Study - Possibility of further significant reductions in NATO's total nuclear weapons requirements - Potential shift of emphasis towards relatively longer ranges across the entire spectrum - Political context for future decisions, including the Alliance's comprehensive concept of arms control and disarmament.

Fundamental changes in Central and Eastern Europe - Adaptation of NATO to new conditions - NATO's rôle as focus of Western efforts to influence change in Europe - Potential rô1e for CSCE and arms control - Maintenance of a stable framework for change and establishment of a lasting peace - Reduced military risks - Rô1e of unilateral Soviet and Warsaw Pact force reductions in redressing imbalance in Europe - CFE implementation - Further confidence and security building measures - Prospects for dramatic improvement in mutual security - Maintenance of adequate collective defence including presence of North American forces in Europe - Comprehensive Concept of Arms Control and Disarmament - Short-term adjustments to defence posture - Preparations for longer-term changes - Modification of 3% general target for annual defence expenditure increases - Resource implications of CFE - Maintenance of credible defence posture - Diminished readiness and availability of standing forces - Reduction in exercises - Reductions and adjustments to training programmes - Maintenance of operational standards - Review of location of NATO Tactical Fighter Centre - Multinational forces - Use of civil resources for defence - CNAD Work Plan - 1990 Force Goals - Early implementation of CFE Treaty - Negotiations of further reductions of armed forces in Europe - Rô1e of collective security in a period of unprecedented change and opportunity.

Message from Turnberry - New era in Europe - Positive developments in Central and Eastern Europe - Progress towards German unity - Expansion of political exchanges - Repercussions of positive trends beyond Europe - Rôle of the Alliance in constructing a new European order of peace - Priority of CFE Treaty - CSCE Summit - CSBM negotiations - Progress achieved at US-Soviet Summit on START - Further talks on strategic nuclear forces - Signature of verification protocols on nuclear testing - Bilateral agreement on chemical weapons stocks - Progress towards convention on chemical weapons - Allied commitments on implementation of chemical weapons ban - Open Skies initiative - Coordination mechanism for verification of arrns control treaties - Support for political and economic reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union - Factors affecting future stability and security in Europe - Military capabilities of the Soviet Union - The Alliance's rôle in preventing conflict - The transatlantic link - Continued need for presence of North American forces in Europe - Decrease in military risks - Principles established in May 1989 Comprehensive Concept of Arms Control and Disarmament - Review of military strategy - Multinational forces - Negotiations on US-Soviet short-range nuclear forces in Europe - Rôle of CSCE - Prospects for 1990 CSCE Summit including modalities of institutionalisation and future regional cooperation - Bonn Conference on Economic Cooperation - Copenhagen Meeting of the Conference on the Human Dimension - Palma de Mallorca meeting on the Mediterranean - Albania and the CSCE process - German unity - "2 + 4" talks - Rôle of Germany within NATO - Internal transition in the Soviet Union - Support for aspirations of the Baltic peoples - Participation of Central and Eastern European countries in NATO's scientific and environmental activities - NATO's Democratic Institutions Fellowship Programme - Rôle of Atlantic Committees and Associations - The North Atlantic Assembly - Intra-Alliance cooperation and assistance - Strategy review - Peace-building and peace- keeping - Rôle of the Council in overseeing and coordinating NATO's adaptation to new circumstances.

Transformation of European security environment - New course for the Alliance as set out in the London Declaration - Progress towards revision of strategy and changes to conventional and nuclear force posture - Unification of Germany - Progress towards democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe - Decline of the Warsaw Pact - Unilateral Soviet reductions and withdrawals - CSCE Summit - CFE Treaty - Joint Declaration marking the end of the Cold War - Future uncertainties and risks facing the Alliance - Residual Soviet military capabilities - Future security guarantees - The Gulf crisis - Rôle of Alliance members in support of United Nations Security Council measures following Iraq's aggression against Kuwait - Consultation within the Alliance - Development of new military strategic concept for the Alliance in accordance with London Summit decisions - Coordination of national force plans - Orientations of future force posture - Reductions in readiness status of various Allied forces - New guidelines for Alliance force sustainability - New concept for reinforcement - Adjustment of NATO's Infrastructure Programme to future requirements - Progress report on adaptation of Air Command and Control System (ACCS) programme - Basing of US 401st Tactical Fighter Wing in the Southern Region - Endorsement of decision on construction of Crotone air base - Improvements in conditions of defence trade - CFE Treaty - Challenges related to destruction and verification aspects of CFE - Cooperation within NATO Verification Coordination Committee - Equipment transfers - Changes in nuclear policy and force posture - Modifications affecting nuclear deterrent forces - Development of future nuclear force posture in conjunction with new Alliance strategic concept - Consultations on framework for US-Soviet arms control negotiations on reduction of short-range nuclear forces - Progress in START negotiations - US proposals for dialogue with the Soviet Union on nuclear deterrence - Rôle of new CSCE structures - Adoption at the Paris Summit of further confidence and security-building measures - Fundamental Alliance rôle of war prevention - Intensification of political and military dialogue and contacts in Europe.

Progress towards a just and lasting order of peace in Europe - German unity - German contribution to European security and stability as a full member of the Alliance - Charter of Paris for a New Europe - CFE Treaty - Adoption of CSBM document - Joint Declaration on Peaceful Relations - Diplomatic liaison with the Soviet Union and countries of Central and Eastern Europe - Political and military exchanges - Economic disparities on the European continent - Focus of long-term efforts - Enhancement of the Alliance's political component - Council deliberations on the adaptation of NATO - Review of military strategy - Strategic consequences of instabilities - Residual Soviet military capabilities - Sharing of leadership and responsibilities between Europe and North America - Development of a European identity and defence rôle in the interests of the Alliance as a whole - Adaptation of Allied political and military structures - Decisions of the European Council in Rome - Complementarity and transparency between the process of adaptation of the Alliance and the development of European security cooperation - Arms control and disarmament - CFE implementation and resolution of problems relating to data and Treaty interpreta- tion - Coordination of national verification efforts - Limitations on personnel strengths of national conventional armed forces - Confidence and security-building measures - Work of the High Level Task Force - Negotiations towards an Open Skies agreement - Preparations in the Special Consultative Group for US-Soviet negotiations on short-range nuclear forces - US efforts towards the conclusion of a START Treaty - Priority accorded to achievement of a global comprehensive and verifiable ban on chemical weapons - Preparations for Third Review Conference of the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention to be held in September 1991 - Progress towards the construction of a new Europe - Future European architecture - Institutional arrangements within the CSCE process - New cooperative relationship with the Soviet Union and countries of Central and Eastern Europe - Process of political and economic reform in the Soviet Union - Economic cooperation - Support for aspirations of the Baltic peoples and need for negotiated solutions - Reforms in central and Eastern Europe - Initiatives undertaken in the Group of 24 - Expansion of dialogue and political and military exchanges - Rô1e of NATO's scientifice and environmental activities and information programme in developing future contacts - Prospects for democratic reform in Albania - Implications of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and spread of military technology - New global security risks and challenges - Statement on the Gulf crisis.

Basing of the United States 401st Tactical Fighter Wing - Economic cooperation and assistance within the Alliance - The situation in the Mediterra- nean - Science Committee - Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society - Conference of National Armaments Directors.