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1991–1993 (The Push from Central Europe): Following the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, Central European leaders increasingly pressed for integration with NATO. Poland made NATO membership an explicit strategic goal by 1992, while Václav Havel and other regional leaders increasingly advocated opening the Alliance to the new democracies.
NATO – Poland and NATO
NATO – Czechia and NATO
1993–January 1994 (The Shift in U.S. Policy): During 1993, NATO enlargement became a major debate inside the Clinton Administration. By January 1994, Clinton publicly declared in Prague that:
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The question is no longer whether NATO will take on new members but when and how.
Clinton White House Archive – Prague Press Conference, January 1994
January 1994 (The Brussels Summit & Partnership for Peace): NATO launched the Partnership for Peace (PfP), open to former Warsaw Pact and post-Soviet states, including Russia. The official Summit Declaration explicitly linked PfP participation to the future enlargement process and stated that NATO expected and welcomed expansion toward democratic states in the East.
NATO – Brussels Summit Declaration, January 1994
September 1995 (The Study on NATO Enlargement): NATO published its official
Study on NATO Enlargement, laying out the political and military expectations for prospective members and explaining how future enlargement would proceed. It made clear that enlargement would be a gradual and deliberate process, although there was no rigid checklist guaranteeing membership.
NATO – Study on NATO Enlargement, September 1995
In short: NATO enlargement was already a public and established policy process before Yevgeny Primakov became Russian Foreign Minister in January 1996. The 1997 Madrid Summit decided which countries would be invited in the first round; it did not originate the enlargement policy.
