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 PUBLIC LAW 97-252—SEPT. 8, 1982

96 STAT. 755

United States and that is being developed or procured by members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) other than the United States during the fiscal year for which the report is submitted.". NATO DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL COOPERATION

SEC. 1122. (a) The Congress finds that— 22 USC 1928 (1) the United States remains firmly committed to cooperat- ^°^' ing closely with its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (hereinafter in this section referred to as "NATO") allies in protecting liberty and maintaining world peace; (2) the financial burden of providing for the defense of Western Europe and for the protection of the interests of NATO member countries in areas outside the NATO treaty area has reached such proportions that new cooperative approaches among the United States and its NATO allies are required to achieve and maintain an adequate collective defense at acceptable costs; (3) the need for a credible conventional deterrent in Western Europe has long been recognized in theory but has never been fully addressed in practice; (4) a more equitable sharing by NATO member countries of both the burdens and the technological and economic benefits of the common defense would do much to reinvigorate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance with a restored sense of unity and common purpose; (5) a decision to coordinate more effectively the enormous technological, industrial, and economic resources of NATO member countries will not only increase the efficiency and effectiveness of NATO military expenditures but also provide inducement for the Soviet Union to enter into a meaningful arms reduction agreement so that both Warsaw Pact countries and NATO member countries can devote more of their energies and resources to peaceful and economically more beneficial pursuits. (b) It is the sense of the Congress that the President should propose to the heads of government of the NATO member countries that the NATO allies of the United States join the United States in agreeing— (1) to coordinate more effectively their defense efforts and resources to create, at acceptable costs, a credible, collective, conventional force for the defense of the North Atlantic Treaty area; (2) to establish a cooperative defense-industrial effort within Western Europe and between Western Europe and North America that would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of NATO expenditures by providing a larger production base while eliminating unnecessary duplication of defense-industrial efforts; (3) to share more equitably and efficiently the financial burdens, as well as the economic benefits (including jobs, technology^ and trade) of NATO defense; and (4) to intensify consultations promptly for the early achievement of the objectives described in clauses (1) through (3).

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