The United States is ready to back NATO membership for Montenegro, provided the former Yugoslav republic continues to pursue reforms and increases popular support for joining the Western security alliance, the White House said on Monday.
Vice President Joe Biden told Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic in a telephone call on Monday the United States would support extending a NATO membership invitation to Montenegro in December, as long as it continued to make progress in those areas.
Allowing NATO membership for the former communist nation could escalate tensions between Russia and the United States and other members of the Western alliance amid …read more
Source: Voice of America
