Apart from the Baltic states, Nato on Thursday formally invited Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to join the alliance.
Ms Malmstroem said Russia had been invited to join the alliance but had not yet agreed to do so.
Reports published on Wednesday indicated that GM wanted Nissan and Renault to pay it billions of dollars to join their alliance.
Were Turkey applying to join the alliance now, it would probably be told to put its armed forces under democratic control first.
And NATO has a right to invite Ukraine to join the alliance when we believe that you are ready and that the time is right.
The harder obstacle is persuading Tories to join the Alliance.
And, as I said, we will have a meeting with four countries that have demonstrated and said that they would like to join the Alliance and see how far they have gone on that path.
"We're the only global alliance that flies to all of the countries in the Middle East and we really have no aspirations to have one of the carriers in the Gulf join our alliance, " says Mark Schwab, CEO for Star Alliance, which has 27 members.
But by thumping down Russia's military fist in the Caucasus, he has made clear that Russia will not tolerate excessive signs of independence from its neighbours, including bids to join the NATO alliance.
On Monday, Qatar Airways revealed its plan to join the Oneworld global airline alliance by 2014.
Russia's fears intensified when in 1999 the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first former Soviet bloc states to join Nato, bringing the alliance's borders 400 miles closer to the Russian frontier.
Until US President Barack Obama took office, Israel's one steady asset in this war was the US. Until last year, the US consistently refused to join the Red-Green alliance because its leaders recognized that the alliance's campaign against Israel was part and parcel of the Red-Green campaign against US superpower status in the Middle East and throughout the world.
With its campaign in disarray, the only chance the NKP has of defeating the DJP alliance would be to join with both Rhee and the remaining major candidate, Cho Soon, a former Seoul mayor.
At the NATO summit in Madrid this July, we will continue to adapt NATO to the demands of a new era and invite the first, but not the last, new members to join history's most successful alliance.
Turkey, which has one of the largest military forces in the alliance, has declined to join the coalition trying to restore stability in post-war Iraq.
And so, in the spirit of that sentiment, it must be said: When those who purport to support peace and human rights join forces with the Red-Green alliance, what they are actually supporting is bigotry, violence, murder and, ultimately, the destruction of human freedom.
On talks of NATO expansion, Karaganov said that the main talk of expanding the alliance centers around allowing Ukraine to join.
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' moribund stock, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian today urged the world's biggest automaker to join rivals Nissan and Renault in a global alliance as a way to return to profitability after two years of losses.
The eco-terrorists will join forces with the Luddite Punks to form an unholy alliance that likes to blow things up.
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And with the former National Alliance party voting themselves out of existence to join Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom party, the political right here has rarely been more unified and focussed.
Earlier this month, NATO foreign ministers instructed alliance officials to begin setting up a new council where Russia could join the allies in discussion, planning and even decision-making.
If the two countries created a political-economic alliance, much like America and Britain, and Japan decided to join, it would immediately displace America as the number one world power, and would likely continue to gain strength.
Both Kurdish leaders sound happy to join a coalition government in Baghdad, with either the main Islamist-inclined Shia alliance or with a more secular-inclined list headed by the interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi.
But others, including the post-fascist National Alliance's leader, Gianfranco Fini, whose party is set to join Mr Berlusconi's in a coalition government if the left loses the election due by next spring, suggested that the boss had mistackled.
The alliance has five projects pending approval, and several multinational firms queuing up to join.
The opposition Democratic Alliance could wrest the province from the ANC at the election if it manages to join forces with a flurry of smaller opposition parties, as it did to win control of the city of Cape Town.
Even its coalition, now dubbed the United Progressive Alliance, will have only 210-220, and a number of those will not join the government.
Germany's Kirch and Italy's Mediaset agreed to form an alliance in European television, which they hope Canal Plus of France, and others, will join.
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