Hosting NATO’s top brass, Montenegro said Wednesday it was optimistic of being invited to join the Western military alliance in December, over the objections of Russia.
Ambassadors of NATO’s North Atlantic Council meet in Podgorica on Wednesday and Thursday in the latest signal of the alliance’s resolve to invite Montenegro to join its ranks.
Bringing in the tiny Adriatic republic of 650,000 people would mark the first expansion of NATO’s ranks in ex-Communist eastern Europe since Montenegro’s neighbors Albania and Croatia joined in 2009, and the first since Russia-West tensions erupted over Ukraine’s 2014 revolution and the war that ensued.
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Source: Voice of America
