Mr. Gorbachev has publicly insisted that a reunited Germany must remain outside the NATO military structure.

The NATO structure is divided into two commands, one for operations and one for transformation.

However, Băsescu continued to praise the Group's activity on many occasions, including its alleged cooperation with similar NATO structures.

In 1966, France pulled out of the integrated NATO military structure, although it stayed on as an alliance member.

It is not, though, part of the formal NATO structure.

France is not a part of the NATO military structure, but its forces would take part.

It maintains a NATO structure that will try to achieve not only the new missions we've talked about but the political purposes of the alliance.

Latvia has acquired small but highly professional troops that have been fully integrated into NATO structures.

I mean more than the nuclear umbrella and the massive and rapid reinforcement capability that America offers within a NATO structure.

It is also a mistake to under-utilise existing NATO structures.