NATO

NATO's Strategic Concept

The Strategic Concept is a key document for the Alliance. It reaffirms NATO’s values and purpose, and provides a collective assessment of the security environment. It also drives NATO’s strategic adaptation and guides its future political and military development.

The Strategic Concept is reviewed and updated regularly. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been updated approximately every 10 years to take account of changes to the global security environment and to make sure the Alliance is prepared for the future.

Originally taken from:

https://www.nato.int/strategic-concept/

History of NATO-Albania relations

June 1992, Albania applies and is officially accepted by the Council of the North Atlantic Cooperation (NACC).
December 1992, marked the first official visit by the President of Albania, Mr. Sali Berisha, at the NATO headquarters to meet with Secretary General of the Alliance, Mr. Manfred Werner.
19 March 1993, for the first time, NATO Secretary General, Manfred Werner visits Albania.
May 1993, Albania was accepted member of the North Atlantic Assembly.
January 1994, NATO issued the invitation document of the Partnership for Peace, defining it as a direct program and a practical mechanism to transform relations between NATO and non member countries (not members), mainly of the ‘Eastern Bloc’, which were not included under the “security umbrella” of NATO’s Article 5.