US Senate Approves Admission of 7 Eastern European Countries into NATO

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US Senate Approves Admission of 7 Eastern European Countries into NATO

US Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the admission of seven Eastern European countries into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

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US Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the admission of seven Eastern European countries into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

The Senate, with a vote of 96-0, approved the memberships of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to the Transatlantic military alliance. US House of Representatives does not need to vote on the protocol.

The United States, after Canada and Norway, has thus become thethird NATO member state of the 19-member alliance to ratify the expansion. The seven countries' full memberships of the alliance only be realized after all the other NATO members ratify the expansion.

Richard Lugar, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said this was " historic for these seven countries, vital in continuing to strengthen the North Atlantic alliance and central to US security and relationships in the world."

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