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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 .
In 2008 and 2011, Putin expressed the opinion that neither the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine nor the Budapest Memorandum signed by Yeltsin were binding for Russia. In 2014, Putin claimed the Maidan movement and government change radically changed Ukraine into a new entity, toward which Russia has no engagement, allowing the 2014 invasion of Donbas.
The parliament was blocked from 25 January 2008 [48] until 4 March 2008 (on 29 February 2008 faction leaders agreed on a protocol of mutual understanding). [ 49 ] US President George W. Bush and both nominees for President of the United States in the 2008 election , U.S. senator Barack Obama and U.S. senator John McCain , did offer backing to ...
As NATO nations try to agree on Ukraine’s push for membership at a summit in Vilnius this week, an earlier gathering casts a long shadow. At a summit in Bucharest in April 2008, NATO declared ...
Though tensions had existed between Georgia and Russia for years and more intensively since the Rose Revolution, the diplomatic crisis increased significantly in the spring of 2008, namely after Western powers recognized the independence of Kosovo in February and following Georgian attempts to gain a NATO Membership Action Plan at the 2008 Bucharest Summit; and while the eventual war saw a ...
The April 2008 Bucharest Summit communiqué re-affirmed the NATO allies' "commitment to keeping NATO's door open to any European democracy willing and able to assume the responsibilities and obligations of membership, in accordance with Article 10 of the Washington Treaty." [10] At that summit, Ukraine was invited to join the Alliance. [11]
April 2 – A NATO summit takes place at the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest. [4]May - Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania story collection is published. [5]June 1 – 2008 Romanian local elections, with a runoff for mayors on June 15.
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 ...