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But the alliance’s Bucharest promise that Ukraine would become a member someday didn’t make Putin’s war any less surprising.
Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/31/the-war-of-surprises-in-ukraine/
Erdogan, whose country has been holding off its final approval to Sweden’s NATO membership, made the comments in Ankara on Monday before departing to the alliance’s summit meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Finland will become the 31st member of Nato on Tuesday, the Western military alliance’s secretary general has announced.
Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/finland-shuns-russias-putin-joins-nato/
“It is imperative that the same people who live and work in these neighborhoods most affected by the lack of trees be the on-the-ground difference makers that drive the alliance’s work forward,” O’Neil said.
Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/05/14/tree-alliance-program-to-help-preserve-bostons-canopy/
Kyiv wants to join NATO as soon as possible, giving it access to the alliance’s enforced Article 5 – an attack on one is an attack on all.
Source: https://www.mariontoday.org/western-powers-race-to-end-security-pledges-for-ukraine-politico/
Loud cheers filled the main room after the VVD’s losses were announced, along with the alliance’s own projected gains.
Mr. Zelensky additionally visited a number of different NATO nations over the previous few days forward of the alliance’s two-day summit subsequent week throughout which the Ukrainian president hopes to get readability on his bid to hitch.
Source: https://www.mccourier.com/erdogan-says-ukraine-deserves-nato-membership/
Only 11 of the alliance’s 31 members have reached or exceeded this target after “nine consecutive years of increased defence spending” since 2014, documents released at the summit showed.
Source: https://southasiandaily.com/nato-summit-ends-amid-division-opposition/
Paris has opposed Nato plans to open a liaison office in Japan, which would be the alliance’s first outpost in the region.
Romania’s defense ministry said that the goal of the drills — held Feb. 2-10 — is to test NATO’s “interoperability of artillery systems” in a fictitious collective defense scenario on the alliance’s southeastern territory.
Romualdez recalled that in recent engagements, the US has repeatedly emphasized the strategic importance of the Philippines, as well as the alliance’s vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific.
Source: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2023/04/18/house-speaker-vows-to-widen-phl-us-economic-security-ties/
The alliance’s efforts to preserve the mangroves go beyond restoration.
Source: https://ticotimes.net/2023/04/20/mangrove-restoration-in-costa-rica-a-collaborative-effort
The alliance’s leaders are gathering in the Lithuanian capital for a two-day summit, and Ukraine’s bid to join NATO is the most sensitive item on the agenda.
The interview followed the release of the alliance’s annual report, which revealed that just seven of the 30 member states actually met the required minimum two per cent of GDP on defence spending.
The military alliance’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, called upon member nations again Tuesday to commit more dollars to defence spending, and said he expects them to commit to doing so at a NATO meeting in July.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9566812/ottawa-canadian-armed-forces-budget/
The WGA has not commented on any of specifics of the alliance’s new offer.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov that Ukraine is a “de facto” NATO member since it’s equipped with so many of the alliance’s weapons and dismissed the idea that his comments were controversial.
Source: https://news.antiwar.com/2023/01/15/ukraine-dm-says-its-a-fact-that-kyiv-is-a-de-facto-nato-member/