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  • Carlin
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 3332

    Trump asks Senate to OK North Macedonia joining NATO

    President asks Senate to provide advice and consent, saying his administration is ready to brief, assist in deliberations


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    President asks Senate to provide advice and consent, saying his administration is ready to brief, assist in deliberations - Anadolu Ajansı


    30.04.2019

    WASHINGTON

    U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Senate to approve North Macedonia as the 30th member of the NATO alliance.

    "I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification, the Protocol to the North Atlantic Treaty on the Accession of the Republic of North Macedonia," Trump said in a statement.

    The accession protocol was signed by all member states in Brussels on Feb. 6. The process has since moved to the capitals of all Allies, where the protocol will be ratified according to the national procedures of the member states.

    "Full ratification of the Protocol will allow North Macedonia to become a Party to the North Atlantic Treaty and a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)," said Trump.

    He praised North Macedonia as the U.S.'s "steadfast security partner".

    "I ask that the Senate provide its advice and consent, and my Administration stands ready to brief and assist you in your deliberations," Trump concluded.

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    • Carlin
      Senior Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 3332

      Турција сепак нема да го блокира македонскиот влез во НАТО

      Ние му посветуваме особено значење на членството на државата во НАТО, така што нашата поддршка ќе биде целосна во овој процес, нема да има проблем, порача заменик - министерот за надворешни работи на Турција Фарук Кајмакџи

      СКОПЈЕ —

      Турција во најскоро време ќе го ратификува пристапниот Протокол за членство на Република Северна Македонија во НАТО, затоа што безбедноста на вашата држава и на Балканот значи и безбедност на европскиот континент, потенцираше турскиот дипломат Фарук Кајмакџи во интервју за Македонската информативна агенција (МИА).

      Ваквата изјава е во насока на смирување на македонската јавност, по текстовите во дел од медиумите од почетокот на април, според кои, незадоволни од односот на македонските власти кон проблемот што официјална Анкара го има организацијата ФЕТО на Фетула Ѓулен, турските власти би можеле да го блокираат македонското членство во НАТО.

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      Ние му посветуваме особено значење на членството на државата во НАТО, така што нашата поддршка ќе биде целосна во овој процес, нема да има проблем, порача заменик - министерот за надворешни работи на Турција Фарук Кајмакџи

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      • Carlin
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2011
        • 3332

        Senator Murphy Asks Questions at Hearing on Macedonia

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        • Carlin
          Senior Member
          • Dec 2011
          • 3332




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          Stoltenberg: Recently we updated our basic requirements for the telecommunications to include 5G, which is one of the areas where we really are seeing big changes and where societies will be completely transformed by the move from 4G to 5G. And that’s a way for us to make sure that we have functioning safe and secure critical infrastructure in peace, in crisis, and of course also in conflict.

          Q. Is that something that NATO can influence while accepting new members like Macedonia, like Serbia in the future.

          Stoltenberg: Well other countries that join NATO they have to meet their two standards. They have to have of course a safe and secure way of communications. For instance, there are requirements for civilian infrastructure and telecommunications as 5G, they also apply for new members like North Macedonia. They do not apply for nonmembers. We cannot force nonmembers.

          Why 5G, a battleground for US and China, is also a fight for military supremacy
          Next-generation networks will be vital to future military operations, raising the stakes between those developing the technology – which may be easier to hack but carries wider strategic importance.


          Apart from its tremendous commercial benefits, 5G – the fifth generation of mobile communication – is revolutionising military and security technology, which is partly why it has become a focal point in the United States’ efforts to contain China’s rise as a tech power and its allegations against Chinese companies.
          The future landscape of warfare and cybersecurity could be fundamentally changed by 5G. But experts say 5G is more susceptible to hacking than previous networks, at a time of rising security concerns and US-China tensions on various interconnected fronts that include trade, influence in the Asia-Pacific region and technological rivalry.

          What is 5G and what will it mean for you?
          Superfast mobile services are available now, but what 5G mean for you?

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          • Carlin
            Senior Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 3332

            Macedonia Hopes for NATO Accession Ratification in March

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            Reuters
            Feb. 5, 2020

            WARSAW — North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski said on Tuesday that he expects Spain, the final country needed to ratify its North Atlantic Treaty organization (NATO) accession, to be ready to do so in March.

            "If everything goes to plan concerning the political process, around March 10 that process should finish. There will remain some technical details that our parliament in Skopje will have to deal with," Pendarovski told reporters during a visit to Poland.

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            • Carlin
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 3332

              Macedonia has ratified the NATO membership protocol

              Македонија го ратификуваше протоколот за членство во НАТО

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              Со постапка невообичаена за зовриената македонска политика, Собранието денеска едногласно го ратификуваше протоколот за членство во НАТО пред да се распушти во наредните денови. За ратификацијата гласаа 114 пратеници и со тоа заврши македонскиот пат за членството во Алијансата, а сега уште Шпанија треба да го ратификува протоколот и Македонија целосно да ја заврши целата процедура.

              Пред пратениците и гостите прв се обрати претседателот на државата, Стево Пендаровски, кој нагласи дека со овој чекор државата е пред самиот крај на повеќедецениската определба на сите политички елити за членство во Северноатлатската алијанса. Пендаровски нагласи дека членството во НАТО немаше да се случи доколку не беа компромисните договори со Грција и Бугарија. Пендаровски уште нагласи дека државата сега има многу поголема одговорност за зачувување на мирот и стабилноста во Европа, а и пошироко. Врховниот командант најави дека Македонија ќе направи сѐ да го исполни барањето за издвојување на два отсто од БДП за Алијансата.

              По Пендаровски зборуваше техничкиот премиер Оливер Спасовски, кој спомена дека без храбрите договори со Грција и Бугарија (за што особено го пофали Зоран Заев) не ќе можеше да стигнеме до овој момент.

              Понатаму зборуваа координатори на пратенички групи, партиски претставници (меѓу кои и Али Ахмети), а последен се обрати претседателот на Собранието, Талат Џафери.

              Откако 114 пратеници гласаа за ратификација во Собранието се обрати в.д. претседателот на Парламентарното собрание на НАТО, Атила Местерхази.

              Меѓу повиканите гости беа лидерите на сите политички партии, претседателите на највисоките судски институции, членови на дипломатскиот кор, потоа високи претставници од парламентите на повеќе земји од регионот и висок претставник на НАТО.

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              • Carlin
                Senior Member
                • Dec 2011
                • 3332

                Сенатот во Шпанија без ниту еден глас против го ратификуваше Протоколот за пристапување на Република Северна Македонија во НАТО, со што е остварена и последната ратификација на Протоколот.

                Министерот за надворешни работи, Никола Димитров, на заедничката прес-конференција во Владата со шпанскиот амбасадор, Емилио Лоренцо Сера изрази благодарност до Шпанија што ова прашање беше ставено на дневен ред во околности кога Европа и Шпанија се соочува со пандемијата на коронавирус.

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                Членството во НАТО станува реалност. По седум години од воведувањето, шпанскиот сенат, за прв пат денеска ја искористи можност за гласање по електорнски пат. Иако салата беше празна, можноста за поддршка ја дадоа 243 сенатори кои гласаа за прием на Македонија во НАТО и уште 21 кои беа воздржани. Шпанија беше последната од 29те земји членки кои дадоа зелено светло.

                Генералниот секретар на Алијансата ја поздрави денешната ратификација на пристапниот Протокол од страна на Сенатот на Шпанија

                Генералниот секретар на НАТО, Јенс Столтенберг, го честита завршувањета на процесот на ратификација на членството на Северна...
                Last edited by Carlin; 03-17-2020, 11:15 AM.

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                • Tomche Makedonche
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2011
                  • 1123



                  Spanish parliament approves North Macedonia’s NATO membership bid

                  COLOGNE, Germany – The Spanish Senate on Tuesday ratified the accession protocol for North Macedonia to join NATO, clearing another hurdle for the country to become the alliance’s 30th member.
                  In a session that had lawmakers vote remotely due to fears over the spread of the COVID-19 disease in the Madrid parliament, the move made Spain the last country to approve the former Yugoslavian country’s membership bid.

                  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg hailed the news in Twitter message. “With that, all allies have welcomed our soon-to-be 30th member,” he wrote. “Congratulations, North Macedonia!”

                  The office of Spain's ambassador to the alliance said on Twitter that King Felipe had signed the bill “immediately” after its approval. “In the next 72 hours, Spain will deposit its instrument of ratification in the U.S. State Department,” officials wrote.

                  North Macedonia's NATO application has been pending for more than ten years due a dispute with southern neighbor Greece, which objected to the country's previous name – Macedonia – because a province named thusly exists there.

                  It took a name change to North Macedonia, formalized in 2018, to end the logjam. The change also enables the country to apply to join the European Union.

                  North Macedonia's quest for NATO membership began in 1995, when the country joined the alliance's Partnership for Peace program. The formal membership path was initiated at the 1999 Washington Summit together with other former Soviet bloc members, notably the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

                  Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe, called attention to the difficult circumstances of the vote in Madrid. “Thanks to our Spanish ally, which has done this despite dealing with the challenges of the Corona Virus there,” he wrote on Twitter. “Perhaps NATO can lean into the virus with collective military medical capabilities as well.
                  “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part, you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you’ve got to make it stop, and you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all” - Mario Savio

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                  • Carlin
                    Senior Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 3332

                    Macedonia Officially Joins NATO

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                    Today (27 March 2020), North Macedonia became NATO’s newest member, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the US State Department in Washington DC. NATO Allies signed North Macedonia’s Accession Protocol in February 2019, after which all 29 national parliaments voted to ratify the country’s membership.


                    27 Mar. 2020

                    North Macedonia joins NATO as 30th Ally

                    Today (27 March 2020), North Macedonia became NATO’s newest member, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the US State Department in Washington DC. NATO Allies signed North Macedonia’s Accession Protocol in February 2019, after which all 29 national parliaments voted to ratify the country’s membership.

                    Speaking in Brussels on Friday NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, “North Macedonia is now part of the NATO family, a family of thirty nations and almost one billion people. A family based on the certainty that, no matter what challenges we face, we are all stronger and safer together.“ North Macedonia is a long-standing contributor to our Euro-Atlantic security, including by participating in NATO-led missions in Afghanistan and in Kosovo.

                    A flag-raising ceremony for North Macedonia will take place at NATO Headquarters on 30 March 2020, in the presence of the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, and the Chargé d’Affaires of the Delegation of North Macedonia to NATO Mr. Zoran Todorov. The flag of North Macedonia will be simultaneously raised at the Allied Command Operations in Mons (Belgium) and at the Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk (US).




                    Last edited by Carlin; 03-27-2020, 04:09 PM.

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                    • Risto the Great
                      Senior Member
                      • Sep 2008
                      • 15658

                      Everything will be better now.
                      Even the Macedonian flying pigs have received the news warmly.
                      Risto the Great
                      MACEDONIA:ANHEDONIA
                      "Holding my breath for the revolution."

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                      • Gocka
                        Senior Member
                        • Dec 2012
                        • 2306

                        They should look to Italy to see how much brotherly love there is within the EU. First sign of trouble and its every country for itself.

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                        • Carlin
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2011
                          • 3332

                          NATO opens probe on France-Turkey naval incident in Mediterranean

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                          Jens Stoltenberg says alliance authorities are investigating the incident ‘to bring full clarity into what happened’.


                          Jens Stoltenberg says alliance authorities are investigating the incident 'to bring full clarity into what happened'.

                          18 Jun 2020

                          NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the military alliance will investigate French accusations that Turkey's navy failed to respond to an allied call for inspection this month in the Mediterranean.

                          Florence Parly, France's armed forces minister, brought up the incident on Thursday during a meeting of NATO defence chiefs at a time when the two allies have traded barbs over the crisis in Libya, accusing each other of supporting opposing sides in the country's war.

                          Parly said that on June 10 Turkish warships flashed their radar lights three times at the French warship Courbet in the eastern Mediterranean. She said the Courbet was on a NATO mission to check whether a Turkish vessel, the Cirkin, was smuggling arms to Libya after it turned off its transponder, failed to identify itself and did not give its final destination.

                          She added that Turkish sailors had also put on bullet-proof vests and stood behind their light weapons during the incident.

                          "There cannot be any complacency with regard to such behaviour. This particularly serious incident must be dealt with and our allies share our concerns because eight European allies gave me clear support today in NATO," Parly told French lawmakers after the ministerial meeting.

                          Turkish military officials on Thursday rejected the French accusations as baseless, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.

                          "The Turkish armed forces has the experience to tell the difference between hazardous moves, harassment, friendly activities, cooperation, solidarity, and coordination," a senior Turkish official, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media, was quoted as saying.

                          The official said France's claim was not backed up by any concrete evidence, and said the French ship was making fast and dangerous manoeuvres that breached NATO principles and navy security rules.

                          Turkey informed NATO civilian and military officials about the incident, he added.

                          Stoltenberg told a news conference on Thursday that the incident was addressed at the meeting by several alliance states.

                          "My message is that we have made sure that NATO military authorities are investigating the incident to bring full clarity into what happened," the NATO secretary-general told reporters.

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