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The accession of Montenegro to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is in the negotiations stage as of 2010. In December 2009, Montenegro was granted a Membership Action Plan, the final step in an application for membership in the organization.〔(Crna Gora u predvorju NATO-a )〕 == Background == The State Union of Serbia and Montenegro applied to NATO's Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in June 2003.〔Jelena Dzankic, ''Montenegrin NATO Membership Aspirations After the Referendum onIndependence''〕 Montenegro declared independence on June 3, 2006 and soon after opened a Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels.〔(Montenegro's Missions in the World )〕 The new country subsequently joined PfP at the 2006 Riga summit. In November 2007, Montenegro signed a transit agreement with NATO, allowing the alliance's troops to move across the country. Montenegro then signed an agreement with the United States, in which Montenegro would destroy its outdated weaponry as a precondition for NATO membership. In late 2007, Montenegro's Defense Minister Boro Vučinić said that Montenegro would intensify its accession to the alliance after the 2008 Bucharest summit. Montenegro adopted an Individual Partnership Action Plan in June 2008 and was invited to join the Adriatic Charter of NATO aspirants on September 25, 2008. Montenegro has begun to contribute its national armed forces to NATO foreign military operations. The country plans to deploy 40 soldiers, a three-member military medical team, and two officers under German command to Afghanistan in 2010. Montenegrin peacekeepers will also be deployed to Liberia and Somalia.〔http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/features/setimes/features/2009/07/30/featue-02〕 Montenegro has received support for its membership bid from several NATO countries, including Romania, Turkey, Germany and the United States. In December 2013, Dnevne Novine reported that NATO had decided that Montenegro would join NATO at the same time as Macedonia, whose membership has been vetoed by Greece over the Macedonia naming dispute, making accession unlikely in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Montenegro to enter NATO together with Macedonia: Vecer )〕 In March 2014, Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Đukanović stated the desire for Montenegro to join NATO, and in May 2014 expressed the hopes an invitation to join the organization will be favoured at the 2014 NATO summit in September. Russian MP Mikhail Degtyarev of the Nationalist LDPR warned that NATO membership would make Montenegro "a legitimate target of Russian missiles." On May 29 2014, the Slovenian and Croatian foreign and defense ministers sent a letter to the Secretary General of NATO, stressing the importance of inviting Montenegro into NATO. The Slovene defense minister also stated that he expects Montenegro to receive a NATO invitiation during NATO's 2014 Summit in Wales. However, later that year NATO announced that it would not be offering any new countries membership into the organization that year. Analysts confirmed this as a sign that NATO members are becoming skeptical about further Eastern expansion following Russia's annexation of Crimea, due to worries about Russian retaliation to new security guarantees to countries so close to is borders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/05/nato-rules-out-admitting-new-members-anytime-soon/ )〕 However, NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced in late June 2014 that Montenegro would not get an invitation to join the NATO summit in September thereby also dismissing the possibility of Montenegro's entry into NATO the same year. Further assessment of Montenegro's progress is expected by the end of 2015. In late November 2015, the German newspaper Die Welt suggested that NATO would formally invite Montenegro into its alliance during the December meeting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Accession of Montenegro to NATO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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