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- Title: NATO and the Environment (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (Report)
- Author : American Diplomacy
- Release Date : January 31, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Editor's Note: As NATO celebrates its sixtieth anniversary, a retired senior Foreign Service Officer recalls President Nixon's initiative on its twentieth anniversary to create a NATO "Committee on the Challenges to Modern Society." Despite great scepticism about its utility and appropriateness for a military alliance, the new body quickly became effective and highly valued for its work on the environment, and it continues to thrive.--Ed. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's sixtieth anniversary on April 4, 2009, brings to mind an earlier birthday and an event that, without in the least detracting from the Alliance's principal missions of defence and deterrence, gave NATO for the first time a human face and a peaceful link to the outside world. In April 1969, allied heads of state and government celebrated the twentieth anniversary in Washington, the treaty's birthplace, to review two decades of success in keeping the Cold War at that temperature and to lay out broad plans for the future. As to the latter, it was up to the host, President Richard Nixon, to come up with new initiatives, and his gurus and speech writers did their job.