Endnotes
1 Twelve nations initially signed the NATO treaty in 1949. NATO has
since expanded three times to its current 16-nation membership of
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland,
Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,
Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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2 See Appendix
I for a list of 18 designated areas of
cooperation.
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3 The Department of Defense (DOD) plans to spend
additional fiscal year 1997 funds in these six countries, but has
not yet determined how much.
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4 Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia (FYROM), Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
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5 These funds serve as a subsidy that has been set aside
to cover the potential cost to the U.S. government in the event
that the loan recipients default. The Federal Credit Reform Act
of 1990 required U.S. agencies to estimate and budget for the
long-term costs of a loan or guarantee in the year authorized.
See our report entitled Credit Reform: U.S. Needs Better
Method for Estimating Cost of Foreign Loans and Guarantees
(GAO/NSIAD/GGD-95-31, Dec. 1994).
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6 The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia,
and Slovenia had participated or were scheduled to participate in
129, 169, 197, 297, 156, and 190 NATO events, respectively. NATO
officials were unable to provide us with a country-by-country
breakdown of the $26.2 million budgeted by NATO for PFP
activities during fiscal years 1995-97.
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7 According to DOD officials, NATO plans to finalize
target force goals for new members in 1998.
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8 The United States has given Romania $4.3 million in
excess defense articles.
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9 The United States has not yet provided Poland, Hungary,
and the Czech Republic with the FMF loans that Congress
authorized for them in 1997. According to a State Department
official, the Czech Republic has requested a loan of $80 million,
while officials of the other two countries have expressed
interest.
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10 DOD provided $500,000 in fiscal year 1994 funds for the
Polish component of this project prior to the establishment of
the Warsaw Initiative.
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11 See our report entitled Bosnia Peace Operation:
Progress Towards Achieving the Dayton Agreement's Goals
(GAO/NSIAD-97-132, May 5, 1997).
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