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handle is hein.crs/crsiwsaaabj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS21240 Updated May 2, 2003 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web NATO Enlargement: Senate Advice and Consent David M. Ackerman Legislative Attorney American Law Division Summary The Senate is expected to vote on the resolution for NATO enlargement sometime in early to mid-May. The enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1998 to include Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, and the invitations extended at the NATO summit in November, 2002, to seven additional states have raised questions about whether Senate advice and consent is necessary when new states join NATO. This report describes the process that has been used in previous enlargements - Greece and Turkey (1952), the Federal Republic of Germany (1955), Spain (1982), and Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (1998) - and finds that Senate advice and consent has been sought and given in every instance. The report also discusses the reunification of Germany in 1990. For more on NATO applicants, see CRS Report RL30168. This report will be updated as needed. The North Atlantic Treaty. The North Atlantic Treaty entered into force in 1949.1 Article 10 of the Treaty provides that [t]he Parties may, by unanimous agreement, invite any other European state in a position to further the principles of this Treaty and to contribute to the security of the North Atlantic area to accede to this Treaty. Article 10 further provides that [a]ny state so invited may become a party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America. The Treaty does not specifically mandate the procedures that each member state should follow with respect to such accessions, but Article 11 does provide that [t]his Treaty shall be ratified and its provisions carried out by the Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional processes. The report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the proposed NATO treaty in 1949 commented specifically on the Senate's role with respect to the admission of new members to NATO, as follows: 63 Stat. 2241 (1949); TIAS 1964; 4 Bevans 828. Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress

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