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着実に進行するグローバルな戦争体制
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20547410-2702,00.html
The Australian
October 9, 2006
Downer commits to NATO link-up
Simon Kearney
-Mr Downer told NATO ambassadors that...Australia had
developed an agreement to share classified information
with the organisation and had appointed a defence
adviser in Brussels.
-The current military deployment in Afghanistan is the
first time Australia has played a role in a NATO
operation and the first time NATO has acted outside
the North Atlantic.
-Senior officials from Australia and NATO will meet
next week in Brussels for high-level staff talks to
discuss the relationship before a summit in the
Latvian capital of Riga next month to finalise the new
partnerships.
Australia has begun sharing intelligence with NATO and
is planning joint training exercises in response to a
push by the US-European military alliance to draw
Canberra into its organisation as a far-flung partner.
In what is being seen as an attempt to improve
relations with Europe, Foreign Minister Alexander
Downer told diplomats at the North Atlantic Council
that he envisaged Australia developing
"interoperability" with NATO forces.
....
Mr Downer said the new relationship would be "in terms
of dealing with specific threats such as improvised
explosive devices ... relationships based on common
use of particular types of equipment and so on".
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer raised
the prospect of Australia becoming a NATO "global
partner" in April and now refers to Australia as a
"contact" country.
Mr Downer told NATO ambassadors that, in response,
Australia had developed an agreement to share
classified information with the organisation and had
appointed a defence adviser in Brussels.
The current military deployment in Afghanistan is the
first time Australia has played a role in a NATO
operation and the first time NATO has acted outside
the North Atlantic.
Australian National University visiting fellow and
former diplomat Tony Kevin said NATO had become
distant from the policies of US President George
W.Bush and that Australia was developing the
relationship to maintain links to European nations
that did not support the US direction in the war on
terror.
"It's keeping a foot in both camps while not stepping
away from the US," he said.
"The war on terror has led to a substantial divergence
of philosophy. There are many European countries that
are now fairly unhappy with the direction the war on
terror has taken."
This did not stop Mr Downer telling European nations
that have put limits on their forces' role in
Afghanistan to lift those caveats and do more of the
"heavy lifting".
He told NATO that Australia wanted a relationship that
was "pragmatic and flexible".
Mr de Hoop Scheffer said Mr Downer's outline for the
relationship was NATO's template for future
partnerships with non-European countries - one that
did not involve building "heavy structures".
Senior officials from Australia and NATO will meet
next week in Brussels for high-level staff talks to
discuss the relationship before a summit in the
Latvian capital of Riga next month to finalise the new
partnerships.
Initially, Mr de Hoop Scheffer said Australia was one
of a list of four nations it wanted to have as "global
partners". Also on the list were New Zealand, Japan
and South Korea.
However, Australia rejected that terminology and these
nations have begun to be referred to as "contact"
countries by NATO.
NATO began in 1949 as a defensive alliance of Western
nations in response to the growth of the Soviet bloc.
The treaty operates on the same basis as Australia's
ANZUS treaty with the US in that an attack on one
nation would be deemed an attack on them all.
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