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Slovakia and six others to join NATO April 2 Slovakia said on Monday it and six other countries would become NATO members at a ceremony on April 2, months before a summit originally planned to welcome them in June.
"Slovakia sees this as the successful meeting of its goal to become a member of the North Atlantic Alliance... and the appreciation of the reforms made in Slovakia over the past several years," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria were initially expected to join NATO at a flag-raising ceremony in Istanbul at the end of June, taking the defense alliance from 19 to 26 members.
NATO's first wave of eastward expansion came in 1999 when Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined. |
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