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Kyrgyzstan cooperates with NATO within the Partnership for Peace and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. NATO and Kyrgyzstan have developed practical cooperation in many areas, with the goal of enhancing regional and global security. The Individual Partnership Programme (IPP) lays out the programme of cooperation between NATO and Kyrgyzstan.
Dialogue takes place within the framework of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC). The NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Ambassador Robert F. Simmons, conducts high-level political dialogue with Kyrgyz authorities through regular visits to the country. The NATO Liaison Officer in Central Asia also visits Bishkek regularly and reviews cooperation with the government.
NATO and Kyrgyzstan are developing practical cooperation in a number of areas through the country’s Individual Partnership Programme (IPP), which is jointly agreed for a two-year period. Key areas include security and peacekeeping cooperation, especially counter-terrorism cooperation and border security, crisis management, and civil emergency planning. The country joined the PfP Planning and Review Process (PARP) in 2007 to work more closely with the Allies on military and defence planning initiatives. Kyrgyzstan also provides essential support to NATO’s ISAF mission in Afghanistan through allowing NATO Allies to use the Manas Airbase outside of Bishkek for logistic support to the ISAF mission.
More…Kyrgyzstan joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council in 1992 (later renamed the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997). The country joined the Partnership for Peace in 1994 to work alongside the Allies in areas where bilateral aims converge. Since joining PfP, Kyrgyzstan has participated in a number of PfP exercises, with a special focus on command and control, civil-emergency planning, and civil-military cooperation.
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