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At the same time, NATO recognizes Georgia's aspirations for membership in the Alliance, as in the case of Ukraine. [42] At the end of November 2020, it became known that the NATO Summit in 2021 would consider a return to the "NATO open door policy", including the issue of providing Georgia with a Membership Action Plan (MAP). [43]
NATO in 2025 . The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an international military alliance consisting of 32 member states from Europe and North America. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. Of the 32 member countries, 30 are in Europe and two are in North America.
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]
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO. Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations. We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia and look forward to free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia in May. MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership.
Ukraine applied for NATO membership in September 2022 after Russia proclaimed it had annexed the country's southeast. [148] Georgia was promised "future membership" during the 2008 summit in Bucharest, [149] but US president Barack Obama said in 2014 that the country was not "currently on a path" to membership. [150]
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NATO member states States affected by territorial disputes ( Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine and Japan ( Kuril Islands )) Disputed regions recognised by Russia as either part of its territory or sovereign states ( Abkhazia , Crimea , Donetsk , Luhansk , South Ossetia ), or with de facto indpendent seperatists backed by Russia Transnistria