Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), a post-Cold War NATO institution, is a multilateral forum created to improve relations between NATO and non-NATO countries in Europe and those parts of Asia on the European periphery. States meet to cooperate and go to the range of political and security issues. It was formed on May 29, 1997 in the ministers meeting of Sintra, Portugal, as the successor to the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC), which was created in 1991. It works alongside the Partnership for Peace (PfP), created in 1994.

Members

Map of EAPC membership

There are 50 members, the 28 NATO member countries and 22 partner countries. The partner countries are:

• 6 countries that (though militarily neutral) possessed capitalistic market economies during the Cold War:
  • Austria
  • Finland
  • Ireland
  • Malta
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland

• 12 former Soviet republics:
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Moldova
  • Russia
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan

• 4 of the Former Yugoslav nations on neither side of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War:
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Macedonia
  • Montenegro
  • Serbia

See also

• OSCE
• ISAF
• UN
• WEU

External links

• Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
• History of NATO – the Atlantic Alliance - UK Government site
• EAPC Security Forum 2007 in Ohrid, Macedonia