BY PETAR KOMNENIC AND ROBIN EMMOTT
Reuters
PODGORICA/BRUSSELS – Sixteen years after NATO bombed Montenegro in the Kosovo war, the Western military alliance is poised to invite the ex-Yugoslav republic to join its ranks over the opposition of Russia which sees its accession as “confrontational.”
NATO diplomats said the Adriatic state of 650,000 people will get the green light on Wednesday at a meeting of alliance foreign ministers in Brussels.
It will mark the first expansion of NATO ranks into ex-Communist eastern Europe since Montenegro’s neighbours Albania and Croatia joined in 2009, and the first since relations between Russia and the West hit a …read more
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