In NATO he pushed the U.S.-sponsored "Partnership for Peace" program to bring together NATO members and nonmembers for military activities, including training maneuvers, equipment sharing, search and rescue, antiterrorist efforts, environmental cleanup, and peacekeeping operations. At a meeting in Brussels in December 1993 the NATO defense ministers agreed to consider for future alliance membership those non-NATO nations that participated in the program.
He advocated for the U.S.-sponsored "Partnership for Peace" within NATO, which aimed to integrate both member and nonmember nations into military activities including training exercises, equipment sharing, search and rescue operations, counterterrorism efforts, environmental cleanups, and peacekeeping missions. At a December 1993 meeting in Brussels, NATO defense ministers agreed to consider future alliance membership for non-NATO countries that participated in the program.