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The proposal not to expand NATO eastward, which was one of the ways Western countries took the initiative on the issue of German reunification and reducing the possibility of the Soviet Union's influence on this process, [12] was based on the provisions of the speech of German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher in Tutzing, announced on January 31, 1990. [13]
NATO membership is not supported by any of the country's political parties, including neither the governing Labour Party nor the opposition Nationalist Party. NATO's secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg has stated that the alliance fully respects Malta's position of neutrality, and put no pressure for the country to join the alliance. [275]
[16] Putin quoted a 1990 speech by Manfred Wörner to support his position that NATO promised not to expand into new countries in Eastern Europe. He stated "[Wörner] said at the time that: 'the fact that we are ready not to place a NATO army outside of German territory gives the Soviet Union a firm security guarantee.' Where are these guarantees?"
To save face, without necessarily admitting that it was wrong to expand NATO, the U.S. could argue that there has not been sufficient consensus within Ukraine itself to join NATO. ... The promise ...
We can, and we will,” promised UK Defense Secretary Healey. And yet the UK’s government has committed to raising its spending only from the current 2.3% level to 2.5% of GDP, without ...
Ukraine argues that it won’t be safe from Russia's aggression until it’s a member of NATO, an alliance whose bedrock commitment is the mutual defense of all its members.
The primary demand from Russia to halt NATO's eastward expansion was rejected by NATO and the U.S., which argued that Russia should not have a veto on the alliance's expansion and that it had the right to decide its own military posture, defending its open door policy as a fundamental principle of the organization. [17]
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, he retold the story of his alleged conversation with the head of a NATO member country that had not met its obligations. Trump hewed closer than ...