{"id":283,"date":"2008-01-25T05:50:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/ankara-lends-support-to-montenegro%e2%80%99s-bids-for-membership-in-nato-eu\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T00:48:44","slug":"ankara-lends-support-to-montenegro%e2%80%99s-bids-for-membership-in-nato-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/ankara-lends-support-to-montenegro%e2%80%99s-bids-for-membership-in-nato-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara lends support to Montenegro\u2019s bids for membership in NATO, EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/medya.todayszaman.com\/todayszaman\/2008\/01\/19\/milan.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"160\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"200\" \/><font class=\"detay-spot\">Describing Montenegro as a country symbolizing stability  in the Balkans, Foreign Minister Ali Babacan yesterday voiced Turkey&#8217;s support  for Montenegro&#8217;s efforts to become a member of both NATO and the European Union.<\/font><br \/>\n<font class=\"detay-spot\">The remarks by Babacan, who is also Turkey&#8217;s chief EU  negotiator, came at a joint press conference in the capital with his visiting  Montenegrin counterpart, Milan Rocen.<\/font><!--more--><font class=\"detay-spot\"> The visit by Rocen is the first official  visit from Montenegro to Turkey after the West Balkan country declared  independence in June 2006. During their meeting, the two ministers &#8212; who  discussed at length ways of improving economic ties &#8212; signed a bilateral  cooperation agreement on diplomats&#8217; training as well as an agreement for visa  exemption. &#8220;Montenegro is indeed a country which symbolizes stability in the  Balkans; a country that has rapidly made reforms following its independence and  which has rapidly improved its relations with both NATO and the EU. \u2026 As Turkey,  we have been supporting Montenegro&#8217;s NATO membership process as well as its  process of gaining candidate status for EU membership,&#8221; Babacan said. Soon after  declaring independence, Montenegro became a member of the United Nations and the  Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The country, a  member of the Council of Europe since May 2007, is also a potential candidate  for European Union membership.  <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/medya.todayszaman.com\/todayszaman\/2008\/01\/19\/milan.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"140\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ankara lends support to Montenegro\u2019s bids for membership in NATO, EU - Lajme nga Ulqini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visit-ulcinj.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/ankara-lends-support-to-montenegro\u2019s-bids-for-membership-in-nato-eu\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ankara lends support to Montenegro\u2019s bids for membership in NATO, EU - 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