1、1Research assistance for this report was provided by Michelle Walensky.Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web96-561 FJune 19, 1996NATO Adapts for New Missions: The BerlinAccord and Combined Joint Task Forces (CJTF)(name redacted)Seni
2、or Specialist in International Security PolicyForeign Affairs and National Defense Division1SummaryThe NATO Foreign Ministers, meeting on June 3, 1996 in Berlin, Germany, agreedin principle on significant new steps that, if implemented, would constitute a majortransformation of the North Atlantic Tr
3、eaty Organizations missions and methods ofoperation. In January 1994, NATO leaders had approved a U.S. proposal to createCombined Joint Task Force (CJTF) headquarters that would allow the allies to prepareto use their forces for a wide variety of different military scenarios. The concept had notbeen
4、 put into action largely because of political differences over how to create the optionfor European-led CJTFs. At Berlin, the allies agreed that a European Security andDefense Identity (ESDI) would be created within the framework of the transatlanticalliance by opening the possibility for European o
