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NATO Expansion
1997 US Executive Branch Documents

• TRANSCRIPT: ROSNER INTERVIEW WITH POLISH JOURNALISTS ON NATO US Information Agency 24 December 1997 (Dec. 11 digital video conference on NATO enlargement)
• TEXT: ALBRIGHT STATEMENT AT NATO-RUSSIA PERMANENT JOINT COUNCIL US Information Agency 17 December 1997 (PJC will dissolve the "mutual suspicions of the past")
• TEXT: ALBRIGHT AT SIGNING OF NATO ACCESSION PROTOCOLS DEC. 16 US Information Agency 16 December 1997 (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland)
• TEXT: ALBRIGHT AT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MINISTERIAL MEETING US Information Agency 16 December 1997 (Discusses NATO enlargement, Bosnia, Iraq)
• TEXT: JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHAIR SHELTON ON NATO ENLARGEMENT US Information Agency 12 December 1997 (Says NATO's "forte" is political capability to deter)
• TRANSCRIPT: SLOCOMBE, HUNTER BRIEF ON NATO-RUSSIA PJC DEC. 3 US Information Agency 04 December 1997 (Brussels briefing on Permanent Joint Council, EAPC)
• TRANSCRIPT: DEFENSE SECRETARY COHEN ON RUSSIAN BILATERAL, IRAQ US Information Agency 04 December 1997 (More U.S.-Russian exchanges, transparency sought)
• TRANSCRIPT: SLOCOMBE, HUNTER BRIEF ON NATO, RUSSIA, BOSNIA, IRAQ US Information Agency 03 December 1997 (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary meet NATO requirements)
• UNOFFICIAL TRANSCRIPT: ROSNER, ASMUS DISCUSS NATO ENLARGEMENT USIA 12 November 1997
• TRANSCRIPT: JEREMY ROSNER INTERVIEW ON NATO ENLARGEMENT USIA 29 October 1997
• TEXT: ROBERT HUNTER SPEECH ON NATO IN 2000 AND BEYOND USIA 27 October 1997
• TEXT: GENERAL SHEEHAN ON NATO'S CHARACTERISTICS AND VALUES USIA 16 October 1997
• TEXT: TALBOTT BEFORE WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF BOSTON OCT. 16 USIA 16 October 1997 - Talbott says the case for NATO enlargement "is compelling."
• TRANSCRIPT: COHEN NEWS BRIEFING IN SOFIA OCTOBER 3 07 October 1997 (Sees Bulgaria as high on list of potential NATO members)
• SECRETARY ALBRIGHT SAYS COST OF NATO ENLARGEMENT "AFFORDABLE" 07 October 1997 (Says she will insist that allies share burden fairly)
• TEXT: PRESS RELEASE ON ASST. SEC. GROSSMAN'S VISIT TO ROMANIA 06 October 1997 (Joint press release)
• TRANSCRIPT: PRESS STATEMENTS BY GROSSMAN, CONSTANTINESCU 04 October 1997 (Meet in Bucharest during A/S Grossman's visit)
• TRANSCRIPT: Q&A SESSION FOLLOWING ASST. SEC. GROSSMAN SPEECH 03 October 1997 (At Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial, Sofia)
• TEXT: ASST. SECRETARY GROSSMAN SPEECH IN BULGARIA 03 October 1997 (At Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial)
• TRANSCRIPT: SECSTATE DISCUSSES NATO AT HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH 02 October 1997
• TEXT: ALBRIGHT REMARKS TO NATO-RUSSIA PERMANENT JOINT COUNCIL USIA 26 September 1997
• TRANSCRIPT: ALBRIGHT REMARKS AFTER HISTORIC NATO-RUSSIA MEETING USIA 29 September 1997 TEXT: TALBOTT MAY 6 REMARKS AT TRANSATLANTIC CONFERENCE ("The U.S., the EU and Our Common Challenges") 06 May 1997
• BINDENAGEL ON NATO AND THE NEW TRANSATLANTIC CONNECTION (4/25 remarks to American CofC in Dusseldorf)
• Statement by Secretary Albright at NAC Special Ministerial Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, February 18, 1997
• CLINTON LETTER TO CONGRESS ON NATO ENLARGEMENT REPORT
• Report to the Congress on the Enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Rationale, Benefits, Costs and Implications Released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, U.S. Department of State. February 24, 1997
• Fact Sheet: NATO Adaptation/Enlargement Prepared by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, February 12, 1997
• State Department Fact Sheet on the Partnership for Freedom FY98 Budget Request for NIS: - 05 February 1997
• NATO PRESS BRIEFING BY MIKE MCCURRY, THE WHITE HOUSE January 16
• INTERVIEW OF SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER BY STEVE HURST, CNN-TV, January 17, 1997
• [EXCERPTS] U.S. Department of State Daily Press Briefing Friday, January 10, 1997 NATO Position on NATO Charter Negotiations and Enlargement/US Proposals Made to NATO Secy Gen Solana/Importance of CSCE Limits

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