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Article: Criteria for NATO admission shift after 9/11: candidates get extra credit for assisting the United States in the war on terrorism.
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- October 1, 2002
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When the North Atlantic Treaty Organization convenes in Prague next month, the United States is expected to throw its considerable political weight behind seven countries seeking membership in the alliance.
Although the formal papers endorsing those countries' membership are classified, comments by officials from the Defense and State Departments suggest that the United States will support a "big bang" expansion of the alliance. Invitations are likely to be extended to the former Eastern-bloc nations of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
U.S. support for such rapid enlargement would have been unlikely before the 9111 ...