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In the context of the enlargement of NATO, Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty is the origin for the April 1999 statement of a "NATO open door policy". [1] [2] The open door policy requires a consensus in favour of countries applying to join NATO, as all member states must ratify the protocol enabling a new country to become a member of NATO.
The text of Article 10 was the origin for the April 1999 statement of a "NATO open door policy". [120] In practice, diplomats and officials have stated that having no territorial disputes is a prerequisite to joining NATO, as a member with such a dispute would be automatically considered under attack by the occupying entity.
NATO reaffirmed its Open Door Policy, which allows nations to choose their own security arrangements. Paragraph 6 commended the two-thirds of states that matched or exceeded the annual 2% of GDP defense spending goal, and celebrated efforts to modernize weapons and military activities.
The Open Door Policy had been further weakened by a series of secret treaties in 1917 between Japan and the Allied Triple Entente that promised Japan the German possessions in China after the successful conclusion of World War I. [6] The subsequent realization of the promise in the 1919 Versailles Treaty angered the Chinese public and sparked ...
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President-elect Donald Trump blamed Nato for Russia’s war on Ukraine. Now Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow is open to talks with him (AP)
Several U.S. foreign policy experts said the administration's actions, if taken at face value, reverse longstanding U.S. policy and break with diplomatic norms in massive and important ways.
At the same time, NATO recognizes Georgia's aspirations for membership in the Alliance, as in the case of Ukraine. [42] At the end of November 2020, it became known that the NATO Summit in 2021 would consider a return to the "NATO open door policy", including the issue of providing Georgia with a Membership Action Plan (MAP). [43]