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Following the 2022 Madrid summit, [102] [103] both countries were invited to join NATO. [104] The formal ratification process to approve their membership by current NATO members began on 5 July 2022. [105] By October 2022 all members except Hungary and Turkey had approved the pair's applications.
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]
In June 2018, Qatar expressed a wish to join NATO, [174] who ruled it out, saying that only additional European countries could join according to Article 10 of NATO's founding treaty. [175] Qatar and NATO had earlier signed a joint security agreement, in January 2018.
All existing NATO countries must give their approval before a new member can join the alliance. Hungary was the only hold-out. Here is a look at Sweden’s complicated path toward NATO membership.
While eastern European countries say some sort of a road map should be offered to Kyiv at a NATO summit in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday, the United States and Germany are wary of any move that ...
Sweden and Finland have been formally invited to join the alliance.
There has been, and continues to be, a number of politicians who support Ireland joining NATO, mainly within the centre-right Fine Gael party, but the majority of politicians still do not. [27] [28] It is widely understood that a referendum would have to be held before any changes could be made to neutrality or to joining NATO. [29]
The two Scandinavian countries see Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a warning sign — Finland shares an 800-mile border with Russia — and have determined to abandon decades of strategic ...