Duma plans to urge Montenegro not to join NATO
MOSCOW. Nov 19 (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma plans to adopt a statement aimed at discouraging Montenegro from joining NATO.
"The State Duma deputies are addressing their counterparts, the members of the Montenegrin Skupstina [parliament], the parliamentarians of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member-states, and the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to urge them to refrain from NATO's enlargement, which, according to media reports, is planned following an official invitation to Montenegro to join the alliance scheduled for early December 2015," says a draft address initiated by the Duma international affairs committee, which is available in the Duma database on Thursday.