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Western Balkan countries – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia. Croatia (yellow) joined the EU in 2013. The Western Balkans is a political neologism coined to refer to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia, except Slovenia, since the early 1990s.
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
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]
Albania's relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began in 1992 when it joined the North Atlantic Cooperation Council. [1] In 1994, it entered NATO's Partnership for Peace, which began Albania's process of accession into the alliance. [2] In 1999, the country received a Membership Action Plan (MAP). [3]
Prior to that, Nato was involved in the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo following the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and in 2011 it enforced a no-fly zone over Libya.
As said by Craig Kennedy in an introduction to the NATO Bucharest summit [11] and from the NATO summit program. [12] NATO's capability and capacity. The tensions in the Russia-NATO relationship (3 and 4 April). Cyber security. EU-NATO partnership. Energy security. Stability of the Western Balkans. The mission in Afghanistan (2 and 3 April).
The bloc wants to use a common growth plan worth 6 billion euros ($6.52 billion) to help the Western Balkans nations form a regional common market and join the European common market in areas such ...
Territorial entities when Yugoslavia broke up in 1991. Ethnic distribution of populations in the Western Balkans in 2008. With the redefinition of borders and forced population movements that followed the inter-ethnic conflicts of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia, the Western Balkans were sharply divided, and deep-rooted tensions remained.