Montenegro and NATO: discussions within the Alliance
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It became known about the disputes within the Bloc over the adoption of new participants against the background of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The decision to join Montenegro into the Alliance will be a confirmation of the open door policy, which at the moment is not ready to recognize all the responsible persons of NATO.
In December 2015, Montenegro should become a member of the Alliance, but formally its membership will be approved in 2016 at the Warsaw Summit.
Other countries participating in the Bloc believe that the resolution of the tense situation with Russia is possible through negotiations, and the open door policy can only aggravate the diplomatic situation. Such an opinion, for example, is held by the leaders of Germany and France.
Thus, Francois Hollande, at a meeting with J. Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the Alliance, officially announced that his country does not approve of Montenegro's admission to NATO in terms of diplomatic relations with Russia. Hollande spoke not only about Montenegro, but also about the precaution in joining any countries to the Alliance.
Italy, Germany and the Netherlands are also against NATO enlargement at the expense of the Balkans.
Summing up, we can say that the stumbling block is the ambiguous position of NATO members on the issue of expanding the Alliance by joining the countries of the Balkan region - the negative attitudes are motivated by the fact that the integration of Eastern European states against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis can be regarded as deliberate deterioration of diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation.
Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO enlargement is a matter that can only be resolved by the country by the applicant and all the Bloc's participants together.
In other words, at the moment the issue of Montenegro's accession to NATO has been resolved only partially - the full composition of the Alliance does not support this decision.
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