1990 London NATO summit

1990 NATO summit meeting in London, England December 2019 December 2019 NATO Summit London 1990 1990 London Summit United Kingdom London 5–6 July 1990 thumb|alt=NATO flag|NATO flag The 1990 London summit was the 11th NATO summit since 1949.NATO e-Library: Summits and ministerial meetings http://www.nato.int/docu/comm.htm nato.int North Atlantic Treaty Organization 18 September 2014 The ones before had been in November 1985, March 1988 and May 1989. It was held in London on 5–6 July 1990. The principal outcome of the summit was the London Declaration on a Transformed North Atlantic Alliance. The declaration, shaped in the midst of a changing Europe (→ Revolutions of 1989), called for substantial changes in the organisation to ensure it could adapt to a rapidly evolving political landscape.NATO's Command Structure: The Old and the New http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_69718.htm nato.int North Atlantic Treaty Organization 18 September 2014 Additionally, the declaration called for reductions in short-range nuclear capabilities, and re-focusing its long-term strategic plans with associated changes to the structure and quantity of its military. The declaration reinforced a message given days earlier stating that NATO no longer saw the Warsaw Pact countries as enemies,Rimanelli Marco The A to Z of NATO and Other International Security Organizations 14 September 2009 Scarecrow Press 978-0810868991 94 and opening up channels for communication and aid with the former eastern bloc states.United States Security Strategy for Europe and Nato http://www.dod.mil/pubs/europe/chapter_2.html United States Department of Defense 18 September 2014 NATO extended a "hand of friendship" to eastern European nations.1990 Summit: a turning point in 'East-West' relations http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_116133.htm?selectedLocale=en nato.int North Atlantic Treaty Organization 26 March 2017 One year later, on 20 December 1991, NATO and former members of the Warsaw Pact formed the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC), now called the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. Other The Paris Charter was adopted by a summit meeting of most European governments in addition to those of Canada, the United States and the Soviet Union, in Paris from 19 to 21 November 1990. The charter was established on the foundation of the Helsinki Accords, and was further amended in the 1999 Charter for European Security. Together, these documents form the agreed basis for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe). On 1 July 1991, the Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. At a summit later that same month, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declared a US–Soviet strategic partnership, decisively marking the end of the Cold War. See also Message from Turnberry External links 1990 Summit: a turning point in 'East-West' relations (includes links to Verbatim records and other links) Declaration on a transformed North Atlantic Alliance issued by the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council (The London Declaration) References Summit of 1990 1990 London summit Category:1990 in politics Category:1990s diplomatic conferences Category:1990 in international relations Category:1990 conferences Category:United Kingdom and NATO Category:1990 in British politics Category:Conferences in London Category:Diplomatic conferences in the United Kingdom Category:July 1990 in the United States Category:Foreign policy of the George H. W. Bush administration