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Some Moldovan politicians, such as former Minister of Defence Vitalie Marinuța, have suggested joining NATO as part of a larger European integration.The current Prime Minister of Moldova, Dorin Recean, supports European Union membership, but not NATO membership, [10] as did his predecessor Natalia Gavrilița, and her Party of Action and Solidarity. [11]
NATO relations with Moldova date back to 1992, when the country joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. Moldova works alongside NATO allies and partner countries in a wide range of areas through the Partnership for Peace and the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council .
A map of Europe and North America with NATO countries colored in green and Moldova colored in orange. Lambert conformal conic projection with standard parallels 40°N and 60°N; de-factor borders; precise to 110 km.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
Led by pro-European President Maia Sandu, Moldova, which lies between Ukraine and NATO and EU member Romania, hopes to join the European Union by 2030. It has strongly condemned Russia's full ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Allies also welcomed Moldova's efforts to join the European Union. Under Sandu, Moldova, which lies between Ukraine and NATO and EU member Romania, hopes to join the bloc by 2030.
Moldova joined NATO's Partnership for Peace in 1994, and initiated an Individual Partnership Action Plan in 2010. [282] Moldova also participates in NATO's peacekeeping force in Kosovo. [283] Following the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, NATO officials warned that Russia might seek to annex Transnistria, a breakaway Moldovan region. [284]