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1 The concept was first defined in the Declaration of the Heads of State and Government participating in the NATO Summit of 10-11 January 1994 at Brussels.
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2 `Intervention de M. Herve de Charette devant le Conseil de l'Atlantique Nord reuni en session ministerielle', Brussels, 5 December 1995. See also interview with M. de Charette in Le Figaro of 20 December 1995.
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3 The `Atlantic Community' concept, calling for the reinforcement of free trade and parliamentary and popular contacts as well as security cooperation between Europe and North America, was first launched by Mr Malcolm Rifkind as Secretary of State for Defence in 1994 and was most recently elaborated in his speech to the Atlantic Council of the UK at Bath, 2 November 1995, on `New Challenges for the trans-Atlantic Security Partnership'.
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4 For more detailed arguments on this (and on the Russian dimension), see the speech '1996: Substance and Symbolism' by Michael Portillo MP, Secretary of State for Defence, to the WEU Assembly at Paris on 5 December 1995.
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5 `Memorandum on the United Kingdom Government's Approach to the Treatment of European Defence Issues at the 1996 Inter-Governmental Conference', published and placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament by the Prime Minister, John Major MP, on 1 March 1995.
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6 `European Security: a common concept of the 27 WEU countries', adopted and published at the WEU Council of Ministers' meeting in Madrid, 14 November 1995.
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7 NATO Enlargement Study, published at NATO HQ Brussels on 28 September 1995.
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8 Statements by the Russian Delegations to the OSCE Seminar on the `Security Model' at Vienna, 18-19 September 1995, and OSCE Senior Council meeting at Prague, 26 October 1995.
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9 Basic principles for the Model and a work programme for elaborating its text during 1996 were set out in the Decision of the Budapest Ministerial Council of OSCE (7-8 December 1995) on a `Common and comprehensive security model for Europe for the twenty-first Century.'
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10 The UK's approach to this issue was first set out in the speech by Douglas Hurd MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to the 49th General Assembly of the United Nations, New York, 26 September 1994.