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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2003. OCLC Number: (OCoLC)53916395 Subject: United States -- Foreign relations -- Baltic States. Excerpt: ... 11 So, the standards for membership must be high, but NATO leaders have wisely recognized that there is no single set of criteria, no simple checklist that determines whether a country is qualified for membership. NATO needs to be able to accommo-date members as diverse as the United States and Luxembourg or Turkey and Ice-land. As a result, Article 10 of the Washington Treaty states only that: The Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European State in a position to further the principles of the Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. When Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic formally joined the Alliance in 1999, NATO's leaders reflected on their experience and recognized that preparing for NATO membership was a difficult task. They decided to create a tool to help aspirant countries to understand what was expected of NATO members and to pre-pare themselves for membership. They set up the Membership Action Plan or MAP. In establishing the MAP, NATO's leaders stated specifically that the MAP ' ' cannot be considered as a list of criteria for membership. ' ' Instead, MAP is a tool to help countries prepare themselves. Each fall, under the MAP, the aspirant countries de-veloped an Annual National Program ( ANP ) to set objectives and targets for reform. These reforms were focused on five key areas: political and economic development; defense and military issues; budgets; security of sensitive information; and legal issues. NATO reviewed the Annual National Programs, and each Ally provided com-ment and feedback. In the spring, each aspirant met with the North Atlantic Coun-cil in a ' ' 19-plus-1 ' ' format to review its progress in achieving its reform goals. The MAP process has given us a str
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NATO enlargement: qualifications and contributions, Parts I-IV: hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate
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