KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: But first, we are going to take a look back at CNN's coverage of major stories in our 20th anniversary year: the birth of the "partnership for peace."</s>WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am very pleased that our NATO allies approved our proposal for the Partnership for Peace. Ultimately, the partnership will lead to the enlargement of NATO and help us to build a security based not on Europe's divisions, but on the potential of its integration.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN WASHINGTON ANCHOR: The NATO allies, as a whole, saw this as the next step in the aftermath of the cold war. To try to make NATO less of a frightening aspect to those countries. And to try to bring them in in modest military cooperation with the NATO allies.</s>MANFRED WOERNER, NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL: I call on our appropriation partners to seize this opportunity to build the kind of relationship with NATO which they desire.</s>BLITZER: By expanding NATO into those Warsaw Pact nations, at least in the critics' view, it looked like NATO was moving closer and closer to Russia as a potential military threat.</s>VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY, LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY: It's the beginning of the third world war, if the troops of NATO will be near the border of Russia. It's a mistake.</s>BLITZER: There is a serious strain in the relationship today between the West and Russia, a strain that started with the expansion of NATO, an expansion that the Russians don't like to this very day. And the final chapter in the Partnership for Peace has not yet been written.
CNN 20: Partnership for Peace, January 10, 1994