1994 Brussels NATO summit

1994 NATO summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium December 2019 1994 Brussels summit Map of NATO members Belgium 10–11 January 1994 The 1994 Brussels summit was the 13th NATO summit bringing the leaders of member nations together at the same time. The formal sessions and informal meetings in Brussels, Belgium took place on 10–11 January 1994.NATO summit meetings NATO http://www.nato.int/issues/summits/index.html#agendas https://web.archive.org/web/20090509014601/http://www.nato.int/issues/summits/index.html 9 May 2009 dead 18 March 2009 Background In this period, the organization faced conventional questions about whether a new generation of leaders would be as committed to NATO as their predecessors had been,Thomas, Ian Q.R. (1997). The promise of alliance: NATO and the political imagination, p. 101. but events gave those concerns a new spin. In August 1994, NATO air strikes were ordered in an attempt to protect UN safe havens and deter the Bosnia Serbs from further aggression.Thomas, p. 163. Agenda The general discussions focused on the reaffirmation of alliance readiness to carry out air strikes in support of UN objectives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also discussed was the launching of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) initiative in which all North Atlantic Cooperation Council partner countries and members of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) were invited to participate. Accomplishments The summit's work was followed by publication of the Partnership for Peace Framework Document. The summit leaders endorsed the concept of Combined Joint Task Forces (CJTFs) and other measures to develop the European Security and Defence Identity. See also EU summit G8 summit Notes References Thomas, Ian Q.R. (1997). The Promise of Alliance: NATO and the Political Imagination. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8476-8581-3; 36746439 External links NATO update, 1994 Category:1994 in politics 1994 Brussels summit Category:Diplomatic conferences in Belgium Category:1990s diplomatic conferences Category:1994 conferences Category:1994 in international relations Category:1994 in Belgium Category:1990s in Brussels Category:Belgium and NATO Category:January 1994 in Europe