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NATO’s Secretary General reports regularly to the UN Secretary General on progress in NATO-led operations and on other key decisions of the North Atlantic Council in the area of crisis management and in the fight against terrorism.
Staff-level meetings have become more frequent and a number of high-level visits take place between the United Nations and NATO each year. A NATO-UN Round Table meeting took place in New York in March 2004. In April 2004, UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette visited NATO and, in November 2004, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer addressed the UN Security Council.
Staff-level meetings take also place with other UN organisations, such as the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, and NATO experts participate in events organised by other UN bodies. In the area of civil emergency planning, contacts are well established between the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Co-ordination Centre (EADRCC) and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which maintains a liaison officer at the EADRCC on a permanent basis.
NATO also contributes actively to the work of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (UN CTC) – established in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1373 adopted in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States – and participates in special meetings of the Committee bringing together international, regional and sub-regional organisations involved in this process.
