On 10 June 1982, at the Summit Meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) held in Bonn, the NATO Secretary General, Joseph Luns, particularly welcomes the accession of the 16th member country, Spain, on 30 May 1982.
On 2 January 1986, the Spanish newspaper El País publishes an article on the first official visit to Spain of the NATO Secretary General, Lord Carrington, and on his meetings with the government to discuss Spain’s continued membership of the NATO Military Committee despite the country’s non-participation in the Command Structure.
On 18 February 1986, Paolo M. Falcone, Secretary General of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament, submits to the members of his group a note drafted by Enrique Barón, Head of the Spanish Delegation, on the foreign policy strategy of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) during the democratic transition, with particular reference to NATO.