holZ THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON October 19 1993 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PMSI T FROM JOHN PODESTA p TODD STERN Qi SUBJECT NSC Memos for Meeting with Secretary Christopher In anticipation of yoxir 1 30 pm meeting today with Secretary Christopher Tony has submitted three related memos which we attach “Proposed Trio to Europe This is a decision memo on the itinerary of your January trip ' The principal decision point involves the second part of the trip January 12-15 Both options begin with visits to Moscow and Kiev Option 1 — favored by Secretary Christopher and Strobe i Talbott — would follow with visits to KazeUdistan amd Belarus This option would be designed above all to madce major strides in the direction of denuclearizing the former Soviet Union Option 2 — favored by Tony — would continue with a visit to Oslo to meet with Nordic and Baltic coxintries This option would be designed to give recognition to the emerging shape of a new Europe since this group of covintries includes NATO members neutrals and former Soviet republics We have circulated this memo to the Vice President Mack Ro George Gergen and Gearan The Nato Summit and Europe s East This is a decision memo seeking your approval of a Principals' Committee recommendation regarding NATO's engagement with new and aspiring democracies in eastern Europe In a nutshell the Committee recommends that the NATO Svimmit issue a statement of principle to the effect that NATO's membership would grow to embrace new democracies in Europe's east without fixing a timetable or laying down specific criteria for NATO membership Tony's memo also recommends a “Partnership for Peace open to all European states that would help provide a vehicle for the evolutionary movement toward full NATO membership DEQASSIFIED E 0 13526 Sec 3i b White House Guidelines Septemncr 11 2006 ByJ NARA Meeting with Christopher on His Trip to Hunaairv and FSU This memo reviews the itinerary for Christopher's upcoming eightday trip The only decision points are i that Christopher would like to announce your visit to Russia in Januairy when he is in Moscow — Tony expresses reservations about this and 2 that Christopher would like to axiMunce your invitation to Kravchuk to visit Washington this autumn ' suming Kravchuk assures him of adequate progress on nuclear ishues — Tony appears to have no opposition on this ppint ■ J A f i V - v COWriBEHUAb THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN072 l o V Cv THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON •'■■■n All 0 1 October 19 1993 ACTION DECUSSMED E O I35i6 Scc 3i b White House Guideimes Septemoer 11 2005 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT BjJ£k NARA Pate 2pi 'onz' O-oT ” FROM ANTHONY SUBJECT The NATO Summit and Europe's East The Principals Committee today reached agreement on recommendations for handling NATO's engagement with new and aspiring democracies in Europe's east at the January 10 Summit We would like your blessing so Chris and Les can present our position on their trips later this week We believe that the Summit should make a statement of principle that NATO's membership will grow to include new democracies in Europe's east without setting criteria by which applicants are to be judged or a timetable The statement of principle will itself be a significant step beyond anything NATO has said before and will be seen as a victory for pro-Western forces in Central Europe albeit not everything they might like All your advisors agree that doing anything at this stage to indicate that NATO's border will move closer to Russia and Ukraine without at the same time including those two states would have major negative consequences within both That could inter alia make the Central Europeans less secure The Summit should also however call for a qualitatively different engagement between NATO and eastern militaries that would begin immediately We would propose a Partnership for Peace open to all European states willing and able to participate in a Planning Cell at SHAPE and appropriate political and military bodies at NATO headquarters as well as in partnership activities that could range from joint air-sea rescue teams corps of engineer-type projects to clean up the environmental mess left in Central Europe by departing Soviet soldiers and military exercises to enable eastern forces to operate with those of NATO should national capitals choose to engage in some European contingency e g a possible peacekeeping operation for ex-Yugoslavia Active participants in the Partnership would receive a commitment to consult with NATO if they felt their security threatened but no security guarantee The Partnership would be an evolution of the North Atlantic Cooperation Council the umbrella for NATO's current series of seminars and conferences with eastern militaries ■ but open as well to European neutrals In practice only the Central cc Declassify on OADR teNMit Vice President Chief of Staff fieiMBffifit Europeans Russia and Ukraine have the resources for active participation and most activities would take place in Central Europe So there would be de facto differentiation among European states but by a process of self-selection rather than by NATO's drawing a new dividing line in Europe We would describe NATO membership as an evolutionary process with the Partnership an important first stage in the development of mutual commitment and habits of cooperation that can lay the groundwork for full membership Thus while the Partnership stands on its own merits participation in it also will provide the first step toward full NATO membership Its creation therefore will give credibility to the Summit's statement in principle about expansion You also should know that we are preparing a strategy for your trip as a whole beginning with a major speech in which you would articulate a broad concept of security in post Cold War Europe including the economic transformation of the new democracies democracy-building and preventive diplomacy as well as military security and the appropriate American role across this spectrum Our proposals for the NATO Summit itself will include concrete steps toward better responsibility-sharing between America and Western Europe and for adapting NATO's command structure to new circumstances We will recommend that you call on the European Community while in Brussels and meet with leaders of the Visegrad states Poland Hungary and the Czech and Slovak republics in one of their capitals before going on to Moscow and other NIS states In preliminary discussions key allies have been very positive about our Summit ideas but we so far have spoken in general terms about the Partnership for Peace and the need somehow to address the membership issue Now that we have Principals agreement on both those subjects we should move rapidly to firm up allied consensus and to begin telling both Central Europeans and Ukrainians and Russians the broad outlines of our thinking If you agree Chris would write his counterparts immediately then he and Les can explain our thinking during their travels this week to Western Europe and the NIS RECOMMENDATION That you approve the approach on the Partnership for Peace and NATO membership expansion outlined above Approve Disapprove