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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]
Sweden became the newest member of NATO earlier this month, joining 31 nations in the security alliance, including the United States. Well, make that 49 of the United States. This US state is not ...
The United States is also one of the few countries not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol. [4] According to a 2014 analysis by The New Republic , the ratification of a significant number of treaties signed after 1990 has been blocked by senators of the Republican Party for various ideological reasons.
At the press conference following the 43rd Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister Ivanov said that Putin's speech had merely "reminded" the international community that the United States and NATO had broken what he claimed was a commitment made over ten years ago not to expand NATO to Russia's borders.
NATO was founded after World War II to create a pact of mutual defense among member nations in the event of Soviet aggression. NATO member countries are treaty-bound to defend any member in the ...
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Despite discussions and informal agreements made between Gorbachev and US Secretary of State James A. Baker and West German Chancellor Kohl in February 1990 regarding NATO expansion, Soviets failed to obtain any written agreements against NATO expansion to the East during the Washington Summit.
Some individuals have proposed expanding NATO outside of Europe, although doing so would require amending Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which specifically limits new membership to "any other European State in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area." [303]