NATO

Den offisielle historien om 11. September 2001 og «terrortrusselen»

"Terroråtaka mot USA i september 2001 gjorde det klart at trusselbiletet har endra seg radikalt etter den kalde krigen. I staden for ein klar og hovudsakleg militær trussel, står vi no overfor ei rekkje truslar frå internasjonal terrorisme og spreiing av masseøydeleggingsvåpen. 2002 var prega av arbeidet med å tilpasse NATO til desse nye utfordringane."

(St.meld. nr. 26, 25. april 2003: Samandrag +)

Historie

• 1952: Hellas og Tyrkia ble med i organisasjonen i Februar 1952
• 1955: Vest-Tyskland ble med i 1955
• 1982: Spania ble med i NATO 30. Mai 1982.
• 1990: Øst-Tyskland ble gjenforenet med Vest-Tyskland 31. Oktober 1990 og med det ble hele Tyskland med i NATO.

1999

Den Store Utvidelsen

• 1999: Tidligere Washava-pakt landene Polend, Ungarn og den Tsjekkiske rebublikk ble medlemmer 12. Mars 1999.

• 2003-02-10: - Dramatisk for NATO +
  • "(VG Nett) Tyskland, Frankrike og Belgia har gjort USA rasende ved å blokkere NATO-hjelp til Tyrkia. Forsker Espen Barth Eide mener NATO nå står i fare for å bli satt på sidelinjen."
  • "Han peker på at NATO opprinnelig var en forsvarsallianse, ikke en angrepsallianse. Hvis Tyrkia må forsvares, så er det fordi USA først har angrepet Irak."

2003

NATO redefinert

• 2003-01-15: NATO, Iraq and the German-American Waltz +
  • "In five minutes, President Bush and President Havel redefined NATO’s territory of influence from a focus on Europe to a focus on the Middle East. The new mission would include protecting the alliance from the threats of terrorists and tyrants, and the degree of cooperation on engagement in Iraq would be a measuring stick of the alliance’s identity. Until just days before the summit, General Harald Kujat, the head of the NATO military council, among others, was denying that Iraq was a subject for NATO."
  • "Yet in Prague, not a single ally spoke against this new stated vision statement for NATO, which one commentator at the summit paraphrased as "keep democrats in, tyrants out and terrorists down" as a substitute for NATO’s Cold War mission to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down."
• 2003-01-16: (defenselink.mil) Gen. James Jones Becomes First Marine EUCOM Commander; SACEUR Title to Follow +
  • "I believe that history has obviously shown that for the last 50-plus years, (NATO) has played an important role in this part of the world. With NATO enlargement upon us, we are now poised to write the chapter for the next 50 years." --General James ("Jim") L. Jones

2004

Australia involvement indicated

• 2004: "So I mean there is of course a great unity in thinking and analyses and that's the reason that Australia and NATO should cooperate... cooperating already, but should cooperate, I think, in a stronger and more expanded way in the future." --NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (nato.int +

2005

2005-12-19: NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

From "SPEECH BY THE NATO SECRETARY GENERAL AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY, ANKARA, TURKEY -- 19 DECEMBER 2005":

(NATO Integrated Data Service +)

"We have moved on from the rather passive, territorial approach to security that was suitable in the past, to a much more active and functional approach."

"In order to tackle today’s complex security challenges, we must apply military, political, economic and other instruments in a well-coordinated way."

2006

January

• 2006-01-09: (news.xinhuanet.com) NATO attaches importance to ties with China: NATO chief +
  • “NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Monday that the transatlantic alliance attaches great importance to relations with China.”
  • “Asked whether he anticipates any regular dialogue with China, de Hoop Scheffer said he preferred an incremental process. "Let's take a step-by-step approach. Let's not build a big castle before we have laid the foundation. We need a foundation first."”
• 2006-01-10: NATO calls for solidarity in mission in Afghanistan +
  • "Britain, Canada and the Netherlands were tipped to lead the operation. But in the Netherlands, strong opposition both in parliament and among the public to additional troops deployment is prolonging an indecision process."
  • "NATO foreign ministers endorsed a plan to extend the ISAF mission to the volatile south of Afghanistan."
  • "Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has warned that Dutch interests in the United States will be hurt if the Netherlands opts against sending more troops to Afghanistan, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported Monday."
    • "I assume that from time to time decisions must be taken by the U.S. government, by U.S. Congress, which affect Dutch economic interests. It is not difficult to predict that decisions will be made that are not in the best interests of the Netherlands," said Bremer.
  • "De Hoop Scheffer on Monday also reached out for help beyond the alliance, stressing that ISAF is not only a NATO affair."
    • "NATO's efforts to create an environment of security and stability has to be complemented by the European Union, the Group of Eight most industrialized nations and individual donors, he said."
    • "Afghanistan was one of the priorities de Hoop Scheffer defined for 2006. The other two are the Riga NATO summit, and relations with partners, like Ukraine, Russia and the Balkan states."
    • "It's NATO's change; it's NATO's evolution; it's NATO having the means, the forces and the political stature and status to do what it's supposed to do in the 21st century," he said.

2006-01-10: "NATO will most likely expand again"

General James ("Jim") L. Jones - who serves both as the highest ranking military officer at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), NATO’s HQ, and as the commander of the United States European Command (EUCOM) - said this 2006-01-10:

• "In my personal opinion, NATO will most likely expand again.
• NATO will be more proactive and more involved in multinational joint operations.
• It will cooperate more with other international institutions, to include the United Nations.
• It will become involved in supra-interagency cooperation to face the new threats.
• Operations such as Pakistan have shown that we are not just about classical warfighting. The Alliance will leverage this ability to produce results in the less-than-war spectrum of operations."

(Source: Global War on Terror and Future of NATO +)

Mars

• 2006-03-27: Ville kaste 18 tonn øl +
  • "De britiske soldatene øvde vinterkrig ved Garnisonen i Porsanger i to måneder."
  • "Regiondirektør Atle Joakimsen i Tollregion Nord-Norge sier at NATO-styrker som øver i Norge, har spesialregler for innførsel av alkohol til eget bruk."

April

• 2006-04-03: Australian, Dutch forces to join under NATO umbrella +

November

• The Independent: France blocks Nato bid to create a global terror force, av Stephen Castle, 2006-11-04
  • "Plans to boost Nato's co- operation with countries such as Australia and Japan in an effort to forge a partnership against terrorism have been blocked by France."

Mer informasjon på Internett

• 1999-04-12: Ekstraordinært ministermøte i Det nordatlantiske råd, Brussel, 12. april 1999. Erklæring om Kosovo +