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Poland in NATO

Poland in NATO COLUMN Poland in NATO Faced with the hectic pace of events confronting the Alliance at the time of writing - preparations for the Washington summit, but most dramatically NATO's political and military involvement in the Balkans - it is quite easy to forget a truly historic event that took place on the 12''' of April this year in the little town in Missouri, USA (the town symbolically named Independence). The event was a ceremony of formal accession of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary to the North Atlantic Treaty. Why should the term historic be applied in this case ? First of all, to quote the Polish Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek (from his speech at NATO HQ four days later) on the 12th April 1999 Poland 'returned to the community to which we always belonged - a community in which our culture, values and policy are rooted'. This is indeed a feeling that a great majority of my compatriots ascribe to our NATO membership. Because of the turbulent history to which Poland was subjected recently - Second World War, its tragic conse- quences followed by dark years of externally forced communist system - joining the Alliance signifies to us http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) Brill

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Brill
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© 1999 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0925-0972
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1571-814X
DOI
10.1163/157181499X00014
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COLUMN Poland in NATO Faced with the hectic pace of events confronting the Alliance at the time of writing - preparations for the Washington summit, but most dramatically NATO's political and military involvement in the Balkans - it is quite easy to forget a truly historic event that took place on the 12''' of April this year in the little town in Missouri, USA (the town symbolically named Independence). The event was a ceremony of formal accession of Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary to the North Atlantic Treaty. Why should the term historic be applied in this case ? First of all, to quote the Polish Prime Minister, Jerzy Buzek (from his speech at NATO HQ four days later) on the 12th April 1999 Poland 'returned to the community to which we always belonged - a community in which our culture, values and policy are rooted'. This is indeed a feeling that a great majority of my compatriots ascribe to our NATO membership. Because of the turbulent history to which Poland was subjected recently - Second World War, its tragic conse- quences followed by dark years of externally forced communist system - joining the Alliance signifies to us

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Helsinki Monitor (in 2008 continued as Security and Human Rights) – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1999

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