Madeleine Albright - NATO door should be open for new members including Georgia

13:14, 12.03.2019

NATO door should be open for new members including Georgia – Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated in Prague where she is attending an activity dedicated to the 20^th anniversary of the entry of Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary into the alliance.

According to Albright, Georgia and Ukraine will become NATO members when the two countries are ready.

The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 12 of 1999, in the alliance’s first round of post-Cold War enlargement.

A security conference is being held in Prague. President Miloš Zeman has said that the main benefit of NATO membership is the security guarantees it provides.

Speaking in an interview for the CTK news agency on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Czech Republic’s entry to NATO, President Zeman said the main threat facing the alliance today is international terrorism.

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