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Croatia hosted an unofficial meeting of defense ministers on NATO's role in southeastern Europe in March, 2009. [10] On January 1, 2008 Croatia abandoned military conscription and finished its transition to a fully professional army. [11] The Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia expects that it will join the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) in ...
The 2008 Bucharest Summit or the 21st NATO Summit was a NATO summit organized in the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania on 2 – 4 April 2008. [1] [2] Among other business, Croatia and Albania were invited to join the Alliance. The Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) was not invited to join NATO due to its ongoing naming ...
On October 24, 2008, Grabar-Kitarović joined President George W. Bush and NATO Secretary General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer during the signing of NATO accession protocols in the East Room of the White House, in support of the nations of Albania and Croatia joining the NATO alliance. [27]
President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović during welcoming ceremony. The Commander-in-Chief of the Croatian Armed Forces is the President of the Republic of Croatia. [19] Command of the Armed Forces in peacetime shall be exercised by the Commander-in-Chief through the Minister of Defence, who shall be responsible to the Commander-in-Chief ...
The NATO flag being raised in a ceremony marking Croatia's joining of the alliance in 2009 Between 1994 and 1997, wider forums for regional cooperation between NATO and its neighbors were set up, like the Partnership for Peace , the Mediterranean Dialogue initiative, and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council .
Trump has said NATO's European members should spend 5% of GDP on defence - a figure no member of the alliance including the United States currently reaches. Last year, EU countries spent an ...
The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am Sonntag ...
A7 motorway, Croatian motorway network was largely built in the 2000s Flag hoisting ceremony at Ministry of Defence in Zagreb, marking joining of the NATO in 2009. In late 2003, new parliamentary elections were held and a reformed HDZ party won under leadership of Ivo Sanader, who became prime minister.