First of all, I’d like to congratulate Mrs. Gerlinde Niehus for moderating with grace, intelligence and charm the 4-th live video session and to thank her distinguished guests for answering my question regarding the impact of NATO’s New Strategic Concept on the intelligence capabilities.
The query I submit for the present session refers to ACT. Given the strategic objectives of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) to provide support to missions and operations, to improve cooperation among allies, partners and international organizations and to act at the forefront of military transformation, I kindly ask you to tackle the way ACT will operate within the context of a New Strategic Concept. Will there be any changes? Does ACT consider setting up, developing and exploiting new Centers of Excellence (CoE’s) according to the new missions and with a view to improve operational capabilities and interoperability?
In addition, one last question:
Because Romania has already played an active role in NATO Doctrine Area by offering expertise in issuing HUMINT Doctrine and hosting The HUMINT CoE, would you consider a deeper involvement of Romania in OSINT NATO’s activities? Could it become a major OSINT player in the Intelligence landscape? Maybe a CoE OSINT?… What requirements must be accomplished to become a sponsor nation of such a CoE and to be accredited by NATO?
Kind regards,
Roxana Stefanescu
Bucharest, Romania

Dear colleagues,
We have had new Military Doctrine of Russia Federation since 5th February. So we heard the opinion of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen about 8 article – the military danger for Russia that include mentioning about NATO transformation and enlargement closer to Russian borders.
Of course any nation can apply to international organisation without encourage from neighbours. I think (and I am not the official person from Russian state structures) that it is the disadvantage of new Russian Military Doctrine. The point about NATO’s enlargement is concerning a democratic values in Euro-Atlantic area.
The key issue to look forward are terms ‘Ally’ or ‘Allies’. It is the first step to integration European community and huge country Russia. According to the NATO Russian Founding Act – 1997 and the Rome Declaration – 2002 NATO and Russia aren’t enemies. But there weren’t sentences that NATO and Russia are the Allies. Only partners, but not the Allies, that have very principal meaning.
On the other hand we saw in Russian Military Doctrine article 19 Basic aims – reinforcement cooperation with CIS, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and NATO. So, if we return to the previous Russian Military Doctrine 2000, we don’t find the term ‘NATO’ anywhere. I conclud – the new Military Doctrine is more opened to NATO than previous ten yeras before. It is clear.
Military Doctrine points out multilateral cooperation of missle defence. It is very important and opens the new capability to cooperation between Russia and NATO to building missle defence shield.
And we saw in Russian Military Doctrine article 50 – development of negotiations about security regional systems. I think, the glass is half-full, not half-empty, of course. There is very careful step, but very advanced for Russia. It positively reflects the effort of NATO Secretary General to improve the relationship between Russia and NATO. It is the good result. Now we need the new statement that would make us Allies. It should be written in new statement – we are Allies.

Olga Kolesnichenko
Russian jurnalist from Moscow

Around the world,NATO dealing with some operations as successfully for peace and security for alliance for world and at the same time,while NATO was going to new structure which things can be block for this new structure process ?
New NATO’s struce how will affect to relations between NATO and out of NATO countries ?