Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) is a NATO organization, a multilateral forum created to improve relations between NATO and non-NATO coutries in Europe. The members states meet to cooperate and consult on a range of political and security issues. It was formed on May 29, 1997 as the successor to the North Atlantic Cooperation Council[?] (NACC) and works alongside the Partnership for Peace[?] (PfP), both created post-Cold War in 1991.

Members

There are 46 members, the 19 NATO member countries and 27 partner countries.

The partner countries are:

• Albania
• Armenia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Estonia
• Finland
• Georgia
• Ireland
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Moldova
• Romania
• Russia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• The Republic of Macedonia
• Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan
• Ukraine
• Uzbekistan

See also: Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre[?], OSCE, WEU, UN

External link

• Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (http://www.nato.int/pfp/eapc.htm)
• NATO (http://www.nato.int/)