- NATO Update - Summary 1995
NATO-Russian relations undergo a significant transformation when Russia joins the Partnership for Peace Programme in May 1995 and simultaneously NATO and Russia institute a more specific programme of dialogue and cooperation
- NATO Expansion: What Yeltsin Heard - National Security Archive
At the Clinton-Yeltsin meeting in June 1995 at Halifax, Nova Scotia (Document 20), Clinton applauded the Russian agreement finally to join PFP, and recommended more military-to-military cooperation and more Russia-NATO dialogue
- NATO - Official text: Study on NATO Enlargement, 03-Sep. -1995
By December, agreement had been reached on Russia's Individual Partnership Programme and areas for pursuance of a broad, enhanced NATO-Russia dialogue and cooperation beyond PfP, which were formally accepted by Russia on 31 May 1995
- 1995 Moscow Summit, Moment of Truth: Memo to President Clinton from . . .
Of course, Russian fears over NATO growth did not disappear, and further NATO expansion eastward, especially into former Soviet republics, along with a new Russian President even more suspicious of the West and determined to pursue an independent foreign policy, led to a slow decline in relations
- Russia Takes Steps Toward Closer Ties With NATO
Forty-six years after it was established as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization consummated a marriage of convenience with Russia on Wednesday,
- The Short-lived NATO-Russia Honeymoon - National Security Archive
In his first visit to newly independent Russia, Secretary General of NATO Manfred Woerner meets with the Speaker of the Russian parliament, Ruslan Khasbulatov, to talk about the future of European security and about NATO-Russia cooperation
- Strobe Talbott Memorandum to the President: The Moment of Truth
Unwittingly, though, Talbott’s memo points to the biggest problem—the president’s “determination to keep on track two strategies that are crucial to [his] vision of post Cold War Europe: admitting new members to NATO and developing a parallel security relationship between the Alliance and Russia ”
- Russia and NATO in the 1990s - Daniel S. Hamilton
Between 1992 and 1995, Moscow pursued its ‘first choice’ of strengthening the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE, contemporary OSCE) as the most inclusive, truly pan-European security organization
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