Bosnia and Herzegovina foreign policy is directed towards preservation and improvement of permanent peace, security, stable democracy and full sate development as well as contribution to international peace and security.

Bosnia and Herzegovina understands and accepts the collective security concept as the foundation to a long- term military strategy. Becoming the NATO member is the key element in ensuring the military security in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is because its national sovereignty and territorial integrity is then granted by the whole Organization. Although the membership in NATO Partnership for Peace Program does not bring guarantees of collective security as it is the case when being the full member of NATO, it does represent the first step towards that direction.

Membership in NATO and EU represents strategic goal for Bosnia and Herzegovina.  Strong public support and consensus of the main political parties in reaching these goals play an important role here. Bosnia and Herzegovina will, in line with that, strive towards full membership in NATO and it intends to include its military forces in NATO military structure.

Bosnia and Herzegovina decided to fulfill goals of Partnership for Peace Program, by increasing transparency of defensive planning and budget approving, providing full democratic control over armed forces and cooperation with NATO. This is all in order to strengthen the abilities of armed forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina to act together with NATO members, especially in terms of peace preservation and humanitarian operations.

Bosnia and Herzegovina confirms that NATO members and partner-countries are linked by strong values – democracy, human rights and the rule of law. The people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, its citizens, share the same ideals and values that connect the Euro Atlantic family of democratic countries – protection of freedoms, human rights, rights of minorities, legal system, free trade economy and environment protection.

Partnership for Peace is a program of practical bilateral cooperation between individual partner countries and the NATO. Partner countries set priorities on their own and cooperate with NATO within Partnership for Peace program in realization of those.

Framework Document represents a formal basis for Partnership for Peace program. It states concrete obligations for each partner country. Each country gives and takes certain number of far-reaching political obligations, such as: protection of democratic character of the society, support and preservation of the principles of international law, fulfillment of obligations of the UN Charter, Universal Human Rights Declaration, Helsinki Final Act, international disarmament and control of armaments agreements; restrain from threats or use of force against other countries, respect of exiting borders and resolving disputes peacefully.

Concrete obligations relate to improvement of transparency when it comes to planning and approving budget to be used for defense, establishment of democratic control  over armed forces, development of capacities for joint actions within NATO peace and humanitarian operations.

Framework document foresees obligation that allies take, which is the obligation to consult each partner country that believes its territorial integrity, political independence or security has been endangered.
Bosnia and Herzegovina accepted an invitation to join the NATO Partnership for Peace program (PfP) and confirmed its commitment to principles and goals stated in the Framework Document of PfP and main Document of the Euro Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC).

Bosnia and Herzegovina supports the fundamental concept of Partnership for Peace program and wishes to contribute to security and stability in the Euro Atlantic zone, as well as to decreasing the threats to peace and strengthening of relationships through active cooperation, and being committed to the general democratic principles.

With it security policy, Bosnia and Herzegovina chose to play an active role in international cooperation at political, economic and security level and will put all efforts in institutionalization of relationships, especially with NATO/ Partnership for Peace program.

On December 13, 2006, the Presidency made Decision on accepting the NATO Partnership for Peace program Framework Document.

The President of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr. Nebojša Radmanović, signed the Framework Document in Brussels, on December 14, 2006. Thus, Bosnia and Herzegovina formally became the member of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership council – EAPC and gained all rights and obligations, in line with the signed Framework Document and General Partnership Document.