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      "date": "1999-05-24",
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      "title": "NATO: Congress Addresses Expansion of the Alliance",
      "summary": "On April 30, 1998, the Senate gave its consent to the amendment of the North Atlantic Treaty\nto\nadmit Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary by a vote of 80-19. The President signed the\nResolution of Ratification on May 22, 1998. On March 12, 1999, the three countries formally joined\nthe alliance.\n On July 8, 1997, NATO named Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary as candidate states\nfor admission to the alliance. On June 3, 1997, Representative Benjamin Gilman and others\nproposed the European Security Act of 1997 ( H.R. 1758 ). It was engrossed in\n H.R. 1757 , the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, on June 11, 1997. The Conference\nReport ( H.Rept. 105-432 ) was sent to the House floor March 10, 1998. The House passed\n H.R. 1757  by voice vote on March 26, 1998, and the Senate by a vote of 51-49 on April\n28, 1998. The bill became the European Security Act of 1998, and is Title XXVII of the omnibus\nappropriations measure that the president signed on October 21, 1998 ( P.L. 105-277 ;\n H.R. 4328 ).\n The European Security Act endorses NATO enlargement; urges that the door to alliance\nmembership be kept open should a first round of enlargement occur; specifically urges consideration\nof the Baltic states, Bulgaria, and Romania; outlines recommendations for arms control negotiations\nthat affect new and current members; and states that the European allies should pay the bulk of the\ncosts of enlargement.\n The act states that no commitments be made to Russia over deployments of conventional and\nnuclear forces in new member states that would put such states in a category different from that of\ncurrent members. In addition, NATO should make no commitments to Russia limiting the\nconstruction of defense infrastructure or deployment of reinforcements in a new member state's\nterritory.\n On May 27, 1997, NATO and Russia signed the \"Founding Act,\" which outlines their future\nsecurity relationship.\n On February 11, 1998, President Clinton sent the protocols of accession to the Senate (Treaty\nDoc. 105-36). The Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted a Resolution of Ratification, which\nit adopted by a vote of 16-2 on March 3, 1998, and sent to the full Senate, accompanied by Exec.\nRpt. 105-14. \n At the April 23-25 NATO summit in Washington, the allies did not invite new members, but\nreaffirmed their policy of keeping the door open to qualified candidates.",
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