With ratification of Montenegro’s NATO accession stuck in the US Senate, two Montenegrin opposition leaders have asked Trump advisor Steve Bannon to help keep the country out of the alliance.
Anti-NATO opposition politicians in Montenegro have written to White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, seeking his aid in getting Donald Trump’s new US administration to reconsider America’s support for Montenegro’s membership of NATO.
US Congressman Mike Turner, former NATO Parliamentary Assembly President and, Chairman of the US Congress Armed Services Subcommittee, wrote to Trump on Thursday urging him to support Montenegro’s accession.
Turner said Montenegro had “proved itself a worthy partner to the US It completed essential reforms and contributed to NATO-led missions.”
In his first major speech to Congress on Tuesday, Trump assured US allies that he was committed to NATO, despite earlier calling it “obsolete”.
In the letter, Turner quoted Trump as saying “America is willing to find new friends and to forge new friendships where shared interests align”.
“I am asking the President to publicly support Montenegro’s accession to NATO. This will advance US interests by strengthening the Alliance, maintaining international security, and stabilising the Balkan region,” Turner’s letter said.
In Montenegro, two pro-Russian opposition leaders, Andrija Mandic and Milan Knezevic, have meanwhile sent a letter to Bannon asking him to urge the US administration to reconsider the country’s readiness to join NATO.
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