Except for honorary memberships in organizations like the Group of Seven leading industrial nations and NATO's so-called Partnership for Peace, Moscow has largely been shut out of Western decision making.

It will also offer a so-called Partnership for Peace to former Warsaw Pact countries as a step toward possible membership.

Washington is also likely to provide more economic aid and allow Croatia to join NATO's so-called Partnership for Peace, an association of countries that coordinates security policy with the alliance.

It has joined NATO's so-called Partnership for Peace, but has not applied for alliance membership; last spring, it refused to let NATO planes fly over to bomb nearby Yugoslavia.

They noted he had begun Poland's application to join the European Union and supervised Poland's membership in the so-called Partnership for Peace, a kind of apprenticeship program for NATO.

In particular is the question of the role to be assigned to Russia in the so-called Partnership for Peace.

Mr. Olechowski stressed that Poland had put aside its skepticism about the so-called Partnership for Peace, a plan designed by Washington to show interest in Eastern Europe but at the same time not offend Moscow.

Clinging to neutrality, Switzerland has declined to join NATO, but has taken part in its so-called Partnership for Peace exercises in Eastern Europe.

Albania was welcomed into the so-called Partnership for Peace, a training effort for countries that aspire to belong to NATO.

The United States wants Russia to join the so-called Partnership for Peace, a form of association with NATO falling short of membership.