Issues in Focus
NATO
The U.S. supports Croatia's integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions and actively assists Croatia as it seeks membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Since joining NATO's Partnership for Peace in 2000, Croatia has made strong progress toward qualifying for membership. After demonstrating its willingness to begin some of the difficult defense and political reforms necessary for membership, Croatia joined NATO's Membership Action Plan in 2002. The Membership Action Plan -- or MAP -- is Croatia's roadmap for preparing itself for full membership in the Alliance.
Croatia completed its second MAP review cycle in May 2004. The 26 Permanent Representatives of NATO's North Atlantic Council -- one for each member of the Alliance -- hailed Croatia's good progress toward membership. While NATO is the most successful military alliance in history, it is also an alliance of shared values. In addition to discussing necessary military reforms so Croatia can make a greater contribution to collective security, the North Atlantic Council urged concrete progress on other issues, such as refugee returns, judicial reform and full cooperation with the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) .
Links:
- NATO Public Information Projects
- Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried - Press Availability at OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Brussels, Belgium on December 5, 2006
- Croatian Television (HTV) Interview with Ambassador Victoria Nuland, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), March 7, 2006 in Zagreb, Croatia
- Radio 101 Interview with Ambassador Victoria Nuland, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), March 7, 2006 in Zagreb, Croatia
- Novi rat malo vjerojatan, komentar Nicholasa Burnsa, podtajnika za politička pitanja, Državno tajništvo Sjedinjenih Država - "Novi list", 19. veljače 2006. godine (na engleskom)
- U.S. Senate Resolution 342 - December 21, 2005
- U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 529 - December 14, 2005
- Fact Sheet: Adriatic Charter Reinforces U.S. Support for NATO's "Open Door"
- NATO in the 21st Century -- The Road Ahead
- NATO
- NATO's Membership Action Plan
- The Partnership for Peace
- U.S. Mission to NATO
- U.S. in NATO