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2001

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The Partnership for Peace (PfP) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) program aimed at creating trust between NATO and other states in Europe and the former Soviet Union; 22 states are members. It was first discussed by the Bulgarian Society Novae, after being proposed as an American initiative at the meeting of NATO defense ministers in Travemünde, Germany, on 20–21 October 1993, and formally launched on 10–11 January 1994 NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium.

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Activities

NATO builds relationships with partners through military-to-military cooperation on training, exercises, disaster planning and response, science and environmental issues, professionalization, policy planning, and relations with civilian government.

Former republics of the Soviet Union

  •  Armenia (October 5, 1994)
  •  Azerbaijan (May 4, 1994)
  •  Belarus (January 11, 1995)
  •  Georgia (March 23, 1994)
  •  Kazakhstan (May 27, 1994)
  •  Kyrgyzstan (June 1, 1994)
  •  Moldova (March 16, 1994)
  •  Russia (June 22, 1994)
  •  Tajikistan (February 20, 2002)
  •  Turkmenistan (May 10, 1994)
  •  Ukraine (February 8, 1994)
  •  Uzbekistan (July 13, 1994)

    • Former republics of Yugoslavia

  •  Bosnia and Herzegovina (December 14, 2006)
  •  Republic of Macedonia (November 15, 1995)
  •  Montenegro (December 14, 2006)
  •  Serbia (December 14, 2006)

    • European Union members

  •  Austria (February 10, 1995)
  •  Finland (May 9, 1994)
  •  Ireland (December 1, 1999)
  •  Malta (joined April 26, 1995; withdrew on October 27, 1996; reactivated their membership on March 20, 2008; this was accepted by NATO on April 3, 2008.)
  •  Sweden (May 9, 1994)

    • European Free Trade Association member

  •   Switzerland (December 11, 1996)

    • Membership history

    Twelve former member states of the PfP (namely Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia), have subsequently joined NATO. On April 26, 1995 Malta became a member of PfP; it left on October 27, 1996 in order to maintain its neutrality. On March 20, 2008 Malta decided to reactivate their PfP membership; this was accepted by NATO at the summit in Bucharest on April 3, 2008. During the NATO summit in Riga on November 29, 2006, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Serbia were invited to join PfP, which they joined on December 14, 2006.

    Aspiring members

  •  Cyprus is the only European Union member state that is neither a NATO member state nor a member of the PfP program. The Parliament of Cyprus adopted a resolution in February 2011 that Cyprus should seek membership in the program, but President Demetris Christofias did not act on it, saying it would hamper his attempts to negotiate an end to the nation's dispute with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and demilitarize the island. Turkey, a full member of NATO, is likely to veto any attempt by Cyprus to engage with NATO until the dispute is resolved. Christofias' successor, Nicos Anastasiades, has publicly supported PfP membership for Cyprus, but no headway has occurred since.
  •  Kosovo has described PfP membership as a strategic objective of the government. Kosovo submitted an application to join the PfP program in July 2012. However, four NATO member states, Greece, Romania, Spain and Slovakia, do not recognize Kosovo's independence and have threatened to block their participation in the program. To be eligible to join, the Kosovan Armed Forces must be established.

    • Countries that became full NATO members on March 12, 1999

  •  Czech Republic (March 10, 1994)
  •  Hungary (February 8, 1994)
  •  Poland (February 2, 1994)

    • Countries that became full NATO members on March 29, 2004

  •  Bulgaria (February 14, 1994)
  •  Estonia (February 3, 1994)
  •  Latvia (February 14, 1994)
  •  Lithuania (January 27, 1994)
  •  Romania (January 26, 1994)
  •  Slovakia (February 9, 1994)
  •  Slovenia (March 30, 1994)

    • Countries that became full NATO members on April 1, 2009

  •  Albania (February 23, 1994)
  •  Croatia (May 25, 2000)

    • References

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