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  1. Oh the north atlantic treaty organization was established by 12 countries in april
  2. 1949 creating an alliance stretching from north america across the Atlantic to Europe NATO's founding treaty was signed by heads of state and government
  3. in Washington article 10 of the Washington treaty stated that NATO's door would remain open to European democracies willing and able to assume
  4. the responsibilities and obligations of membership by 2009 NATO's membership had increased to 28 allies through 6 rounds of enlargement
  5. during the Cold War strategic interests were at the forefront of decision making about enlargement Greece and Turkey joined the alliance in 1952 the
  6. strategic location of the two countries was important in particular turkey controlled the Soviet Union's only access to the Mediterranean another
  7. priority was to align Greece with the West the country had just come out of a civil war and was still deeply divided between conservatives and communists
  8. West Germany became a member in 1955 after several years of heavy discussion among the Allies the country was pivotal to allied interests due to its
  9. geographical location as well as its industrial power and large workforce yet memories of the first and second world wars were still fresh in the minds of
  10. Europeans the newly democratic Spain join NATO in 1982 the country's geographical position
  11. was a valuable asset to the Alliance the fall of the berlin wall in november 1989 signaled the end of the Cold War
  12. and the end of the division of Europe the pace of change over the next few years was remarkable Germany was reunified bringing the territory of the
  13. former East Germany into the alliance the Warsaw Pact dissolved and the Soviet Union broke up Allied leaders responded to the dramatic changes underway by
  14. extending a hand of friendship to their former Warsaw Pact adversaries inviting them to develop relations with NATO this led to the creation of a forum for
  15. dialogue and the launch of practical bilateral cooperation some of NATO's new Central and Eastern European partners soon declared an
  16. interest in joining the alliance this was an area of Europe which had been fought over by the great powers for centuries carved up integrated into
  17. different countries they wanted to escape their past they wanted a future of security in which their national independence would be guaranteed more or
  18. less he definitely and they saw one organization one organization only that could really guarantee their independence and that was NATO
  19. enlargement was the subject of lively debate in the 1990s the Allies conducted a study to look into the merits of admitting new members the 1995 study on
  20. enlargement set down three conditions which if fulfilled would guarantee that enlargement would be a good thing for NATO and a good thing for Europe the
  21. first condition obviously was that the countries that wanted to join had to be ready to join they had to have completed their democratic transformation I had to
  22. make up their quarrels with their neighbors solve their minority disputes the second condition was that NATO had to know that in absorbing new members
  23. obviously it could continue to function as a serious alliance the third condition was that enlargement was not just about extending security guarantees
  24. to individual countries but the effect would be to add stability for the whole of Europe at the Madrid summit in 1997 Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic or
  25. invited to start preparations to join the alliance I was both political and military task in its first phase so we were addressing the issues put forward
  26. by the intensified dialogue which was based that are made to study on a large mend after medicine it after we were invited to join NATO there was another
  27. important stage so-called accession talks and at that time we had a possibility to talk more deeply about such important issues like a solidarity
  28. burden-sharing consensus how NATO works I mean what was what makes NATO strong and it was an excellent opportunity for us not only to understand the server
  29. things but also to commit our country to this principle to make us a future and strong Caroline the Czech Republic Hungary and Poland became members of the
  30. Alliance in March 1999 a month later at the Washington summit NATO launched the membership action plan often referred to as the map its aim is to help countries
  31. prepare for possible membership Estonia is one of a number of countries that has participated in the map the advantage of that plan was that it was reviewed every
  32. year by the very experienced native stuff which was also capable of giving us pointers on what else should be done to prepare ourselves obviously the final
  33. decision was a political one but this allowed us to make our case I think very largely thanks to map we are today members of the North Atlantic Alliance
  34. seven countries bulgaria estonia latvia lithuania romania slovakia and slovenia became members of NATO in march two thousand and four in the second round of
  35. post Cold War enlargement three other countries had also been participating in the membership action plan however at that time albania Croatia and the former
  36. yugoslav republic of macedonia were not yet considered to be ready to join the alliance eventually albania and croatia were invited to start accession talks in
  37. april two thousand and eight at the bucharest summit thank you they formally became members a year later in April 2009
  38. most likely this will not be the last round of enlargement the former yugoslav republic of macedonia has been assured that it will be invited to join nato as
  39. soon as a solution to the issue of the country's name has been reached with Greece two other Balkan countries Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro were
  40. invited at the bucharest summit to start intensified dialogues on their membership aspirations and related reforms NATO has been helping to build
  41. peace and security in the Balkans since the mid-1990s and the Allies see the closer integration of Western Balkan countries as essential to ensuring
  42. long-term stability in this region at Bucharest Allied leaders also agreed that Georgia and Ukraine which were
  43. already engaged in intensified dialogues with NATO will one day become members membership of the Alliance can be very demanding the Allies have to be sure
  44. that any new member not only shares allowed values but is also ready to contribute to NATO's missions what is the criteria that we apply in order to
  45. invite a new member around this table the criterion is performance good performance in all membership related aspects the decision is taken as we say
  46. by consensus what does it mean it means that all nations must feel comfortable with a new member around this table and its performance and of course let me add
  47. that any accession to NATO and thus the enlargement of NATO does not pose any threat to any other nation in Europe or beyond
  48. nato's ongoing enlargement process is aimed at promoting stability and cooperation but building a Europe whole and free united in peace and founded on
  49. the common values of democracy individual liberty and the rule of law you

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