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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]
According to Moscow as well as Baker's notes, the famous "not one inch eastward" promise [5] about NATO's eastward expansion was made during this conversation. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The concession essentially meant that the western half of the unified Germany would be part of NATO but the eastern half would not.
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]
– What is Nato? The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is a military alliance founded in the aftermath of the Second World War primarily to counter the threat posed by the Soviet Union.
China on Wednesday raised concerns about an eastward “expansion” of NATO as the alliance concludes its annual summit in Lithuania and appears to be moving closer to adding new members. The ...
I propose: Eastward expansion of NATO and welcome alternative suggestions, edits. CT55555 12:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC) Oppose. This would change the topic of the article too much. Super Ψ Dro 20:48, 4 August 2022 (UTC) "Eastward expansion of NATO" on German Wikipedia: de:NATO-Osterweiterung Txkk 14:19, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
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]
In her suddenly relevant history of NATO’s expansion, “Not One Inch,” she recounts how Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both tried to make a place for Russia in European security ...