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At the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit, NATO member states signed accession protocols for Albania and Croatia. A signing ceremony was held, and witnessed by the foreign ministers of the two countries. Individual NATO member states must ratify the protocols according to their national requirements and procedures.
Albania was one of the first nations to recognize Croatia as a sovereign state, with bilateral involvement the Croatian War of Independence. [3] They remain close military allies sharing membership in NATO. Albania is an official candidate for accession to the European Union (EU), a move strongly supported by Croatia. [4]
NATO was established on 4 April 1949 via the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty). The 12 founding members of the Alliance were: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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.
NATO member Albania on Monday inaugurated a refurbished Soviet-era air base, the alliance's first in the Western Balkan region. The air base is named after the small town of Kucova, 85 kilometers ...
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 ...
Albania and Croatia were invited to join NATO at the 2008 Bucharest summit that April, though Slovenia threatened to hold up Croatian membership over their border dispute in the Bay of Piran. [69] Slovenia did ratify Croatia's accession protocol in February 2009, [ 70 ] before Croatia and Albania both officially joined NATO just before the 2009 ...
On 1 April 2009, Albania and Croatia became the first of the group to join NATO. On 5 June 2017, Montenegro joined NATO. [ 2 ] On 27 March 2020, North Macedonia joined NATO.