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Nusrat Ghani - NATO S&T Committee Report 2021

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Monday, 11 October, 2021
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2021 - REVISED DRAFT REPORT - ENHANCING NATO S&T COOPERATION WITH ASIAN PARTNERS

Nusrat GHANI (United Kingdom)

10 September 2021

NATO has continuously fostered its cooperation with countries that lie outside the geographical  scope of the Alliance. Through a series of programmes and initiatives, NATO engages multi- and  bilaterally with partner nations that share the Alliance’s values and interests. Cooperation in the area of Science and Technology (S&T) is part and parcel of that engagement. In recognition of the  changing regional security environment in the Asia-Pacific, which is driven by both the rise of  China and the increasing strategic role of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDT), the  Alliance is actively focused on deepening ties with its partner nations in Asia-Pacific.

While S&T cooperation forms an important part of NATO’s partnership system in general, your  rapporteur concludes that the Science and Technology dimension of cooperation with NATO’s Asian partners in particular is an underexplored pillar of this mutually beneficial relationship. Japan and ROK are world leaders in, inter alia, several technology areas and are science and technology powerhouses more broadly. This report identifies the comparative S&T advantages these NATO partners enjoy in key dual-use technologies and suggests that cooperation can be improved in a variety of ways. Your rapporteur recognises that deepening and expanding cooperation in the S&T realm will depend on the degree to which partner nations make use of NATO’s vast network of scientific and technological expertise. To that end, your rapporteur welcomes the recent decision of the NATO Science and Technology Board to include Japan as an STO Enhanced Opportunities Partner (EOP) nation and suggests that the STB might consider inviting other Asian partners to become STO-EOP nations, if they so desire.

This draft report will be presented and discussed by the Science and Technology Committee for 
adoption at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

The draft report is available here.

A copy is also attached at the bottom of this article.

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