Partnership for Peace

A NATO Headquarters delegation visited Belarus on 14–17 April within the framework of the participation of Belarus in the NATO Partnership for Peace programme. An annual meeting took place to discuss the participation of Belarus in the Planning and Review Process (PARP) of the Partnership for Peace programme.

From the Belarusian side the meeting was attended by representatives of the Defence Ministry, the General Staff and the Armed Forces, who are responsible for achieving partnership goals and reporting information within the framework of PARP, as well as representatives of the State Secretariat of the Security Council, the Foreign Ministry and Emergency Situations Ministry.

The NATO delegation included representatives of the International Staff and the International Military Staff, the Military Partnerships Directorate, the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, as well as defence attachés at the embassies of Bulgaria, the UK, Germany, Poland, the USA and the Czech Republic in Belarus.

The meeting discussed the draft assessment document developed by the NATO Headquarters on the basis of information provided by Belarus in the framework of PARP, clarified a number of practical issues on achieving the partnership goals, as well as ways to improve interaction between the Defence Ministry and the alliance’s divisions within PARP.

The results were summed up at a meeting of Chief of the International Military Cooperation Department, Assistant to the Defence Minister for Foreign Military Policy Major General Oleg Voinov and Paul Savereux, head of the NATO delegation.

The parties also discussed the current state and promising areas of cooperation in the military sphere and key issues of regional security.