• Ambassador Gjoni presented his letters of credentials to the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. (gov.al)
  • NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (R) and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (L) discuss Swedish NATO membership. (wigantoday.net)
  • Ndërkohë Sekretari i Përgjithshëm i NATO-s, Jens Stoltenberg tha të enjten se lufta ishte momenti më i rrezikshëm për Evropën që nga Lufta e Dytë Botërore dhe se Rusia nuk duhet të lejohet ta fitojë atë. (gazetatema.net)
  • Those who attacked NATO on the 29th of May are clearly known to law enforcement agencies," she told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels after talks with Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. (wfla.com)
  • After thorough debates across their whole societies and with large parliamentary majorities supporting the decision, Finland and Sweden simultaneously handed their official letters of application to join NATO over to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on 18 May 2022. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • Albania received a MAP in 1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force has been stationed in Kosovo since the military alliance launched an air campaign against Serbia in 1999 to stop a bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanians in the former territory. (counton2.com)
  • A new EU-appointed police and justice mission (EULEX) will hold sway over the local police and legal institutions, and the 16,000 NATO troops that have occupied Kosova since 1999 will remain. (links.org.au)
  • The emerging conflict, coming amid the ongoing NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, brings full circle nearly a quarter century of NATO bellicosity that began with its 1999 bombing of Serbia, which confirmed to Moscow that it was an aggressive alliance determined to expand. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • The latest provocation against Russia is to invite Montenegro into NATO, writes Jonathan Marshall. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement that NATO plans to expand east by inviting Montenegro to join is guaranteed to destroy hopeful prospects of renewed cooperation between Russia and Western powers over Syria. (consortiumnews.com)
  • The latest move to incorporate tiny Montenegro followed a 2011 decision by NATO to formally recognize several aspiring members, including also Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Macedonia. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Montenegro is a nothing regarding NATO. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Albania and Croatia joined in 2009, Montenegro in 2017, and North Macedonia in 2020. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • On 5 June 2017, Montenegro became the 29th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (iemed.org)
  • With Montenegro in the Atlantic Alliance the Adriatic has become a NATO lake: its shores are an uninterrupted ring of NATO countries, but for the tiny, 20-kilometre-long, Bosnia-Herzegovina coastline. (iemed.org)
  • By entering NATO, Montenegro has chosen what and where it wants to be: a 'Western' nation. (iemed.org)
  • Four countries want to join NATO: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Montenegro and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia all aspire to join the treaty. (navytimes.com)
  • About 300 Kosovars in Montenegro moved to Albania yesterday. (unhcr.org)
  • The Voice of America website in Russian maintains that such renovation projects is a normal practice for the US military, which also has similar projects for Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria (several kindergartens renovated in 2011), Georgia, Latvia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. (rt.com)
  • London, United Kingdom -The former presidents of Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, and Kosovo were the distinguished speakers at a UPF webinar. (upf.org)
  • On 26 May 2022, Prime Minister Rama publicly offered NATO a naval base as an "added value" to the alliance "in these dangerous times", referring to the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the Albanian government has formally denounced. (wikipedia.org)
  • In May 2022, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama proposed the Pashaliman Naval Base to NATO. (ankasam.org)
  • Since 2022, there have been talks between Albania and NATO on the deployment of a military base at this port. (ankasam.org)
  • Members of the Ashraf-3 camp wave Iranian flags during the speech of former US Vice President Mike Pence at the Iranian opposition headquarters in Albania, June 23, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Former US Vice President Mike Pence pauses during his speech at the Iranian opposition headquarters in Albania, where up to 3,000 MEK members reside at Ashraf-3 camp in Manza town, about 30 kilometers (16 miles) west of Tirana, Albania, June 23, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
  • After a two-year break due to Covid, the time had come again in June 2022: The annual field trip of the Körber Foreign Policy Network led the members to North Macedonia and Albania. (koerber-stiftung.de)
  • Albania's relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began in 1992 when it joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Associated Press reported that the offer was also intended to highlight Albania's contributions to NATO despite its small size. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to all these, it is seen that Albania's integration process with the West is carried out through NATO rather than the EU. (ankasam.org)
  • Taking place less than a week after the 2019 OSCE Ministerial in Bratislava, the culmination of the 2019 Slovak chairmanship, this Helsinki Commission briefing took a close look at Albania's interest in chairing the OSCE and how that task may impact Albania in 2020. (csce.gov)
  • He became a major figure guiding the reform of the Albanian armed forces and Albania's integration into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). (upf.org)
  • Bauer also pointed out that the Tirana administration has made vital contributions to NATO, noting that the Albanian Armed Forces have not only participated in NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) and NATO's mission in Iraq, but also sent troops to multinational battle groups in Latvia and Bulgaria. (ankasam.org)
  • He said he wanted the NATO-led Kosovo Force, or KFOR, to take over "all the security matters in the north of Kosovo instead of (Kosovo Prime Minister Albin) Kurti's police. (wjhl.com)
  • Serbia requested that it be allowed to send up to 1,000 Serbian troops or police into northern Kosovo to protect the local ethnic Serb population, but after a week the NATO-led forces in Kosovo (KFOR) are still "evaluating" the request. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Over the past 24 hours, more than 12,000 people had crossed out of Kosovo into Albania and Macedonia. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Zelensky has already met with the prime ministers of North Macedonia and Albania. (novinite.com)
  • Many of the killings occurred in the days following the NATO bombing of the Feronikel mineral plant near Glogovac on April 29, as thousands of civilians were forced onto buses and expelled from the town to the border with Macedonia. (hrw.org)
  • Unless new sites are built or existing facilities are expanded, UNHCR will have to agree to an offer by Albania to accept additional refugees from the FYR of Macedonia. (unhcr.org)
  • For example there are three American military bases in Bulgaria, one in Romania, and, reportedly, an unspecified number of American military instructors in Georgia, whereas America's Camp Bondsteel base in Kosovo is the US largest military installation in Europe and covers the territory of such countries as Albania, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. (rt.com)
  • BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's president demanded Tuesday to have a NATO-led peacekeeping force take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo after a daylong shootout between armed Serbs and Kosovar police left one officer and three gunmen dead. (wjhl.com)
  • Asked whether NATO and others in the West are being lenient on Serbia, because the country is helping to supply weapons to Ukraine, he said: "It's not the case. (counton2.com)
  • Now Kosovo, a NATO vassal state, and its western backers are now doing everything they can to provoke Serbia, which enjoys beneficial relations with Moscow (as well as Beijing). (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Three years ago Albania was the very visible hub of Nato's operations against Serbia, and its capital Tirana seemed an American protectorate. (mondediplo.com)
  • More important, planned expansion follows years of bad faith on the part of NATO toward Russia, led by Washington. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Many authorities agree that in 1989, Secretary of State James Baker and West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher explicitly promised Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not "take advantage" of upheaval in Eastern Europe by expanding toward Russia. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Most brazenly of all, in 2008, NATO invited Ukraine to join the Western alliance, putting Russia on the defensive. (consortiumnews.com)
  • There is much that could be said about the madness of Washington leading NATO deeper into needless confrontation with Russia, exactly how will guaranteeing Montenegro's security and antagonizing the Kremlin advance U.S. interests? (consortiumnews.com)
  • At the same time, NATO continues to seek meaningful dialogue with Russia. (nato.int)
  • The Russia-proposed agreement on security guarantees with NATO says , among other things, that today's alliance member countries withdraw all NATO-deployed weaponry that was not there as of May 27, 1997, thus restoring the 1997 configuration of the Russia-NATO balance. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • Just ten years ago, when Croatia and Albania joined NATO, Russia hardly raised an eyebrow. (iemed.org)
  • Every European country that borders Russia and does not want Russia to tear it apart should be a full member of the EU and NATO. (novinite.com)
  • When Nato believes Russia is no longer a threat, then it is time to disband Nato. (ar15.com)
  • China is definitely a threat to NATO countries and Russia. (ar15.com)
  • All former Warsaw Pact countries except for Russia - Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia - have since become NATO members, with East Germany reuniting with the rest of Germany in 1990. (navytimes.com)
  • As Russia grinds down NATO proxy forces in Ukraine, the West is turning its ire against the one country in Europe not to join sanctions against Moscow. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • Eagle Assist ran from October 2001 to May 2002, consisting of NATO E-3 AWACS assisting with airspace defense and security over the U.S. Active Endeavour involved maritime patrols in the Mediterranean, with the goal of preventing movement of weapons of mass destruction and terrorists. (navytimes.com)
  • From 2002 to 2007 he served as president of Albania, helping to solve internal political conflicts and striving to develop regional peace initiatives. (upf.org)
  • After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, NATO created the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) to strengthen institutional cooperation on the political and security issues between NATO members and former Warsaw Pact countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • Originally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, the Warsaw Pact was created on May 14, 1955, in response to West Germany joining NATO, according to the U.S. State Department's Office of the Historian . (navytimes.com)
  • During the Cold War, nearly all of Europe was divided between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, with East Germany joining the Soviet Union for the pact. (navytimes.com)
  • On the other hand, on February 22, 2023, Rama announced that Tirana is continuing negotiations with NATO regarding the Porto Romano Port under construction. (ankasam.org)
  • This could be interpreted as another reason why NATO is interested in Tirana. (ankasam.org)
  • TIRANA - Albania cut diplomatic ties with Iran and expelled the country's embassy staff over a major cyberattack nearly two months ago that was allegedly carried out by Tehran on Albanian government websites, the prime minister said Wednesday. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The 2016 spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) took place in Tirana, Albania, from 27 to 30 May 2016. (euromil.org)
  • The second part of the field trip began with the journey from Ohrid to Tirana, which took the group to Albania. (koerber-stiftung.de)
  • Indeed, at the Tirana (Albania) World Summit in October 2019, UPF co-founder Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon strongly called upon the nations and peoples of the Balkan Peninsula to embrace such a vision. (upf.org)
  • What we have seen today is that for the first time NATO has decided to have a persistent presence of troops in Latvia with a multi-national battle group led by Canada and then many other NATO allies contributing forces. (nato.int)
  • We don't see any imminent threat against any NATO ally including Latvia. (nato.int)
  • Then we have also increased the readiness and the preparedness of our forces so we can easily reinforce, we can reinforce Latvia and other countries quickly because we have tripled the size of the NATO response force to 40,000 troops and we have established a spearhead force, a brigade which can move within a few days. (nato.int)
  • NATO allies support member countries in Eastern Europe who do not have their own fighter jets by providing year-round 24/7 airspace defense for Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia. (navytimes.com)
  • Yet practically all these countries are either NATO members (Albania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Romania), or have American military bases deployed on their territory. (rt.com)
  • Individual NATO member states must ratify the protocols according to their national requirements and procedures. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Balkan neighbours will be eligible when all 26 NATO members ratify the accession protocols. (eurasia.ro)
  • Nato has widened its campaign of air strikes, pounding key sites across Yugoslavia overnight amid political fall-out from Wednesday's bombing of a refugee convoy in Kosovo. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Meanwhile there remains uncertainty over the exact circumstances surrounding the Nato strike on the convoy of Kosovo Albanian refugees. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A NATO bombing campaign on Serb positions in Kosovo led to the end of the 1998-99 war. (wjhl.com)
  • Vucic, a pro-Russian politician, has often spoken against NATO and its peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, blaming them for allegedly failing to protect minority Serbs from Kosovo Albanian harassment. (wjhl.com)
  • The EU tried but failed to mediate some sort of settlement, which failed, and Serbs in northern Kosovo abandoned their posts en masse. (nakedcapitalism.com)
  • In August 2018, Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama announced that NATO plans to build its first air base in the Western Balkans near the municipality of Kuçovë in south-central Albania. (wikipedia.org)
  • As reported, Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama said in his speech at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe in Reykjavík that European countries should thank Ukraine, not Ukraine should thank Europe for its help, given what the Ukrainian people were doing now for Europe. (menafn.com)
  • Rama stated that most of the port will operate commercially, but NATO may use part of the port in order to strengthen Europe's security. (ankasam.org)
  • Also, last but not least, we very much praise your incredibly exemplary efforts for peace and longstanding cooperation with your neighbor Armenia,' Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama said at the meeting with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, News.az reports. (news.az)
  • The deep investigation put at our disposal undeniable evidence that the cyberattack against our country was orchestrated and sponsored by the Islamic Republic of Iran which had involved four groups for the attack on Albania," Rama said in a video statement. (timesofisrael.com)
  • On the penultimate day of the trip, the day began with a breakfast with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama, followed by a visit to the Parliament and a conversation with Jorida Tabaku, MP and representative of the largest Albanian opposition party, the Democratic Party of Albania. (koerber-stiftung.de)
  • MENAFN - UkrinForm) Albania handed over American armored fighting vehicles and mortar rounds to Ukraine. (menafn.com)
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine is ready for NATO membership and expects a positive decision on Kyiv 's accession to the European Union in the fall. (novinite.com)
  • NATO has also deployed battlegroups in Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. (nato.int)
  • Croatia and Albania members of NATO? (maxi-pedia.com)
  • Everyone in the world, let's become NATO members. (maxi-pedia.com)
  • NATO members agreed at an April summit in Bucharest to invite Albania and Croatia to join the alliance. (eurasia.ro)
  • Mandiant researchers also believe other NATO members could be targeted in similar operations. (letsaskbinu.com)
  • Who are the members of NATO now? (wigantoday.net)
  • Albania agreed in 2013 to take in members of the exiled group at the request of Washington and the United Nations, with thousands settling in the Balkan country over the years. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Enlargements, whether through NATO or the European Union, enable new members to move away from instability and, therefore, toward stability. (iemed.org)
  • As soon as Finland and Sweden join NATO, they will also become full members of the NATO PA. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was formed 68 years ago today when the North Atlantic Treaty - also known as the Washington Treaty - was signed in Washington by 12 founding members, according to NATO . (navytimes.com)
  • Since then, NATO members have remained committed to the collective defense principle - Article 5 of the treaty - that regards an attack on one member country as an attack on all member countries. (navytimes.com)
  • Albania and Croatia are the most recent two countries to join NATO, becoming members in 2009. (navytimes.com)
  • If a NATO member or members invoke Article 5, all members will assist the attacked party, which includes the use of armed force. (navytimes.com)
  • 4. New NATO members around the corner? (navytimes.com)
  • The allied members assess NATO applicants and require "a wide range of political, economic and security reforms" to be implemented before they can join. (navytimes.com)
  • To be sure, Erdogan has given himself license to mock these principles without any noteworthy rebuke from other NATO members. (transconflict.com)
  • Nato cast doubt on whether footage broadcast by Serb TV showed their attack or another incident, or incidents, elsewhere. (bbc.co.uk)
  • This characteristic of Albania has already led to the country becoming the first Western Balkan country to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 2009. (ankasam.org)
  • The irony here is that Turkey, as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has violated every provision of NATO's founding treaty regarding human rights. (transconflict.com)
  • The aim of these talks is to obtain formal confirmation from the invitees of their willingness and ability to meet the political, legal and military obligations and commitments of NATO membership, as laid out in the Washington Treaty and in the 1995 Study on NATO Enlargement. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • Albania was among the first Eastern European countries to join the Partnership for Peace programme. (wikipedia.org)
  • NATO Membership Action Plans (MAP) are designed to assist aspiring partner countries meet NATO standards and prepare for possible future membership. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another point that should be noted is related to the contribution that Albania can make to the energy security of NATO member countries. (ankasam.org)
  • [5] Therefore, Albania is very important for NATO member countries to ensure their energy security and diversify their resources. (ankasam.org)
  • This is in addition to the other 27 NATO countries that the US is currently obligated to go to war for should they come under attack. (consortiumnews.com)
  • With other Nordic bloc countries looking for admission, we've outlined the current state of play with NATO including who's in, who's out and who's seeking approval. (wigantoday.net)
  • While Finland has typically maintained positive relationships with its surrounding NATO countries, their admission will have a huge impact on their defence strategy moving forward. (wigantoday.net)
  • Ireland has never applied to NATO due to its long-standing policy on military non-alignment but with other neutral countries applying for membership, there could be a change of heart. (wigantoday.net)
  • Should we expect additional troops from NATO countries in the near future, let's say in a couple of months or in a half year? (nato.int)
  • We have increased our naval presence in the Baltic Sea and we have established the NATO force integration units, the NFIUs which are small headquarters in the three Baltic countries and in Poland that are key to strengthen that link between national home defense forces and NATO forces and also NATO reinforcements preparing for exercises, improving planning and improving the coordination between home defense forces and NATO forces. (nato.int)
  • This is good news for the other countries that have so far remained outside of the NATO and/or European Union tent. (iemed.org)
  • For the Western Balkan countries, NATO and the EU are strategic goals. (iemed.org)
  • Accession protocols are signed by NATO countries. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • From the moment when Accession Protocols are signed, NATO invites representatives of the invited countries to attend meetings of the North Atlantic Council as observers. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • NATO maintains a permanent, integrated command in which both military and civilian personnel from all member countries work collectively. (navytimes.com)
  • Finnish, Nato and US flags during a Nato foreign ministers' meeting at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels. (wigantoday.net)
  • For Podgorica, NATO membership is a major leap forward toward a Western-oriented future. (iemed.org)
  • Montenegro's NATO membership matters for the country itself and for the Western Balkan-Adriatic region as a whole. (iemed.org)
  • NATO Heads of State and Government extended an invitation to Finland and Sweden to join the Alliance at the Madrid Summit on 29 June. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • At the 2008 NATO Bucharest summit, NATO member states signed accession protocols for Albania and Croatia. (wikipedia.org)
  • NATO hoped to have it completed by the next NATO summit in April 2009. (wikipedia.org)
  • On the other hand, on February 9, 2023, Admiral Rob Bauer, Chair of the NATO Military Committee, praised Albania for its contribution to regional and international security, especially in the context of the eastern flank of the alliance's territory. (ankasam.org)
  • Kosovo's president Osmani on Thursday Sept. 7, 2023, accused investigators of dragging their feet over an inquiry into attacks on NATO peacekeepers earlier this year in which dozens of troops and police officers were injured, some of them seriously. (wfla.com)
  • Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a NATO program aimed at creating trust between NATO and other states in Europe and the former Soviet Union. (wikipedia.org)
  • The base is known as the only Soviet Union base in the Mediterranean during the 1950s, a period when the communist administration in Albania was allied with Moscow. (ankasam.org)
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ( NATO ) was founded after World War Two as part ofefforts to secure peace in Europe, help further cooperation between Europe and North America, and to combat the unpredictable threat of the Soviet Union at the time. (wigantoday.net)
  • The U.S.S.R. also facilitated the rise to power of former communist partisans in Albania and Yugoslavia, who quickly allied themselves with the Soviet Union. (britannica.com)
  • Located in the Western Balkans, Albania is a geopolitically important country. (ankasam.org)
  • NATO has established a stockpile of medical equipment and a Pandemic Response Trust Fund to provide immediate relief to Allies or partners in need. (nato.int)
  • These F-15s will conduct training alongside our NATO allies to strengthen interoperability and to demonstrate U.S. commitment to the security and stability of Europe. (navytimes.com)
  • In addition to military assistance in Afghanistan, NATO allies assisted with Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour . (navytimes.com)
  • Albanian politicians considered admission to NATO a top priority. (wikipedia.org)
  • In addition to the political will, the overwhelming majority of 95% of the Albanian population supported NATO membership. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 28 December 2020, the Albanian Ministry of Defence received 60 sets of ventilator consumables donated by the NATO Pandemic Response Trust Fund. (nato.int)
  • Pristina - Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has congratulated senior Albanian leaders for their progress in joining NATO after the United States signed a key protocol. (eurasia.ro)
  • “This is a historic event for Albania,†said Kosovo’s Premier in a letter to Albanian senior leaders. (eurasia.ro)
  • We are looking forward to your visit to Albania, now COVID has somehow smoothened, so the way is open,' said Albanian PM. (news.az)
  • In the second step of the accession process, each invitee country provides confirmation of its acceptance of the obligations and commitments of membership in the form of a letter of intent from each foreign minister addressed to the NATO Secretary General. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • It was on this same day, 23 February, that Albania first officially applied to join NATO. (wikipedia.org)
  • Finland has officially become a member state of NATO , bringing an end to decades of military neutrality. (wigantoday.net)
  • Following the collapse of its communist government in the early 1990s, Albania has transformed into a steadfast ally of the US and the West, with the country officially joining NATO in 2009. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Most Western analysts believe that Moscow has extended demands that Washington and NATO officials would regard as nonstarters by design. (wilsoncenter.org)
  • The use of ransomware to conduct a politically motivated disruptive operation against the government websites and citizen services of a NATO member state in the same week an Iranian opposition groups' conference was set to take place would be a notably brazen operation by Iran-nexus threat actors," they wrote in a blog post published on Thursday. (letsaskbinu.com)
  • Albania and Iran have been bitter foes for years, stemming from Tirana's hosting of the Iranian opposition group the People's Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK) on its soil. (timesofisrael.com)
  • MAybe that's why President Washington warned against permanent alliances, which this NATO business certainly has become. (ar15.com)
  • A neutral country is a state that is neutral towards belligerents in a specific war or holds itself as permanently neutral in all future conflicts (including avoiding entering into military alliances such as NATO , CSTO or the SCO ). (wikipedia.org)
  • it was also a (seemingly) foregone conclusion since NATO had issued a formal invitation to join the Alliance on 2 December 2015. (iemed.org)
  • Then the country returned to invisibility, to its difficult transition to a market economy and its longing to join the European Union and Nato. (mondediplo.com)
  • NATO: What Is A Membership Action Plan? (wikipedia.org)
  • Although Moscow was eventually unsuccessful, its attempt to derail Podgorica's NATO membership was indicative of its current hostility towards the Alliance - wherever it may be. (iemed.org)
  • It is up to the country concerned to decide if it wishes to seek membership," according to NATO. (navytimes.com)
  • The discussion focused on North Macedonia's NATO membership and the development of the country's cyber capabilities. (koerber-stiftung.de)
  • Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania Olta Xhaçka attended via video call the special reinforced meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council at Ministerial level held in Vienna. (gov.al)
  • The Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Olta Xhaçka, recalled with great honor, the 73rd anniversary of the foundation of the largest political- military alliance, NATO. (gov.al)
  • In honor of this anniversary, the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs has displayed the NATO logo and colors on it's exterior. (gov.al)
  • Since 1992 Albania has been extensively engaged with NATO and has maintained its position as a stability factor and a strong ally of United States and EU in the troubled and divided region of the Balkans. (wikipedia.org)
  • Then of course there will be times with exercises and with NATO allied forces where we can see more troops but we don't plan to increase the numbers of troops as part of the battle group. (nato.int)
  • There was no immediate reaction from NATO to Vucic's request, but it is highly unlikely to be granted because the primary role of the troops is peacekeeping, not policing. (wjhl.com)
  • These points show that Albania has a significant place in NATO's ports strategy. (ankasam.org)
  • However, Albania has an important place in NATO's Balkans and Adriatic strategy. (ankasam.org)
  • [2] Therefore, NATO is showing interest in the port in order to produce more effective policies, especially in the Adriatic. (ankasam.org)
  • The Biden administration said it supported the move by Albania, which is a NATO ally. (timesofisrael.com)
  • We think we have measurable defensive but also sufficient presence through the battle group and I think the battle group sends a very clear message about NATO solidarity, NATO presence and that an attack on all will be … that an attack on one ally will be regarded as an attack on the whole Alliance. (nato.int)
  • As the holder of the 2020 Chairmanship, Albania now seeks make its own contribution to security and cooperation in Europe as a whole. (csce.gov)
  • Ridge signed a $480,000, one-year contract with Albania in September 2006, to help the country "develop an overall homeland defense strategy based on land, air and sea security. (sourcewatch.org)
  • The recent cyberattacks that disrupted government systems in NATO member Albania have been linked by threat intelligence giant Mandiant to Iran. (letsaskbinu.com)
  • This activity poses an active threat to public and private organizations in other NATO member states in the short term. (letsaskbinu.com)
  • For this reason, NATO should warn Erdogan that unless he reverses his policies and reinstitutes basic democratic principles, especially human rights and freedom of the press, Turkey will be kicked out of NATO. (transconflict.com)
  • It is time to consider kicking Turkey out of NATO, regardless of how difficult and complicated this far-reaching measure may be. (transconflict.com)
  • NATO trucks assisted in the departures, taking out some 1,000 refugees to the railway station for points south. (unhcr.org)
  • The number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in Albania is 13.19 while in Suriname it is 27.07. (ifitweremyhome.com)
  • Why is Sweden not in NATO? (wigantoday.net)
  • As it has done with past accessions, the NATO PA is monitoring and encouraging prompt ratification of Sweden and Finland's accession to Allied parliaments. (democraciaparticipativa.net)
  • On Friday, the United States President George W. Bush signed NATO agreements that put Albania and Croatia a step closer to joining the security alliance, calling it a historic step for the Balkans. (eurasia.ro)
  • As you know both in the capacity of a chairman of the OSCE and now in the capacity of a member of the UN Security Council, Albania has been, it is and will be fully supportive of Azerbaijan, of truth and historical rights of Azerbaijan. (news.az)
  • According to her, same as 73 years ago, NATO continues to guarantee the collective security of the Euro-Atlantic space and the democratic world. (gov.al)
  • All embassy staff, including diplomatic and security personnel, were ordered to leave Albania within 24 hours. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Podgorica's entry into NATO does not bring much to the Alliance in terms of military capabilities, but does have wider geopolitical and security implications in Europe and in the Mediterranean. (iemed.org)
  • Minister Xhaçka expressed pride that Albania is a trusted member of NATO, which gives a contribution that goes beyond what a small country like Albania can offer. (gov.al)
  • Ministrja e Jashtme, Olta Xhaçka ndodhet në Oslo, ku ishte pjesëmarrëse në takimin e Ministrave të Jashtëm të NATO-s. (sprint.al)