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During NATO's 2008 Bucharest summit in Bucharest, the United States and Poland called for Georgia to be allowed to join the Membership Action Plan (MAP). The alliance decided not to offer Georgia a MAP due to opposition from several countries, led by France and Germany, who feared the decision would anger Russia.
NATO members agreed at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Georgia and Ukraine "will become members of NATO in the future". [ 17 ] Bosnia and Herzegovina was invited by NATO to join the Membership Action Plan (MAP) in April 2010.
That March, Ukraine applied for a Membership Action Plan (MAP), the first step in joining NATO. At the April 2008 Bucharest summit, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer declared that Ukraine and Georgia would someday join NATO, but neither would begin Membership Action Plans. [171]
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
Several central and Eastern European countries began marking on Thursday the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when formerly socialist countries became ...
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. The Republic of Macedonia (now North Macedonia) was not invited to join NATO due to its ongoing naming ...
NATO leaders meet this week for a summit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the military alliance, which has never been larger and more focused but is also facing potentially existential ...
Georgia in 2004-2008 sought to become a member of NATO, but did not succeed in the face of strong Russian opposition. [ 1 ] Georgia is a member of the United Nations , the Council of Europe , and the OSCE .