MR. CROWLEY: Good morning and welcome to the Department of State. Obviously, in the past 18 hours and projecting ahead to noontime when the National Security Advisor will also speak, you've had - will have had three very important speeches here in Washington, D.C. focused on the future of NATO, the NATO strategic concept, what the alliance is doing now and what the alliance will do in the future.
We thought with our able Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder in town, it would be a good opportunity for you to catch up both to kind of put the comments today and yesterday in context, but also answer your questions about where the alliance is today. So, Ivo, thank you for coming in. Always a pleasure to see you (inaudible).
AMBASSADOR DAALDER: Good to be here. Thanks, P.J. Good morning. As P.J. said, we have three major speeches by three principal national security officials in the course of less than 24 hours.
The reason for those speeches specifically is that the heads of state and government in April decided - of NATO decided that NATO needed a new strategic concept, and we have been in the process of a rather public debate about what that strategic concept should look like. And there's a seminar today at NDU which - where Secretary Gates and National Security Adviser Jones will be speaking - that goes into that for the fourth time. It's the fourth seminar. Secretary Albright, the chair of the group of experts, is helping Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to draft this concept, which will be decided by - or approved by the heads of state and government in their summit in November in Lisbon.
In the speeches that the secretaries and National Security Advisor made and are about to make, we sought to stress four points. First and foremost important is that NATO's security promise has not changed despite the fact that
