Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAP) are plans developed between

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and different countries which outline the objectives and the communication framework for dialogue and cooperation between both parties. NATO launched the IPAPs initiative at the

2002 Prague Summit The 2002 Prague summit was the 17th NATO summit held at the Prague Congress Centre where the heads of state and government of the NATO member states met. Seven states at the summit were invited there to begin accession talks with NATO: Bulga ...

. In 2021, NATO established a new framework for relations with partner states, which it refers to as Individually Tailored Partnership Programmes (ITPP). As a result, all IPAPs will transition to ITPPs.

Participation

Individual Partnership Action Plans (IPAPs) are in implementation with the following countries: * (29 October 2004) * (27 May 2005) * (16 December 2005) * (31 January 2006) * (19 May 2006) * (10 September 2008) * (15 January 2015) Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Serbia have stated they have no current intention to join NATO, but all of them participate in NATO's

Partnership for Peace The Partnership for Peace (PfP; ) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) program aimed at creating trust and cooperation between the member states of NATO and other states mostly in Europe, including post-Soviet states; 18 states are ...

program. Georgia and Ukraine are currently undergoing

Intensified Dialogue NATO is a military alliance of thirty-two European and North American countries that constitutes a system of collective defense. The process of joining the alliance is governed by Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which allows for the ...

for NATO membership and Ukraine applied for membership in 2022, while Bosnia and Herzegovina has a

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and is actively working towards joining NATO.

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had an IPAP with NATO from 20 June 2008 until it acceded to NATO on 5 June 2017.

Ukraine

Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...

's relationship with NATO is governed by the NATO–Ukraine Action Plan, adopted on 22 November 2002. In April 2005, Ukraine entered into Intensified Dialogue with NATO, and during the

2008 Bucharest summit The 2008 Bucharest Summit or the 21st NATO Summit was a NATO summit organized in the Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania on 2 – 4 April 2008.

NATO declared that Ukraine could become a member of NATO when it wants to join and meets the criteria for accession. However, under the foreign policy of new President

Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych (born 9 July 1950) is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of t ...

in 2010, Ukraine announced that it no longer had NATO membership as a goal, and passed a law stipulating the country's non-aligned status. Following months of

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street protests that began because of his refusal to sign an Association Agreement with the European Union in favor of deals from Russia, President Yanukovych was overthrown. In response to the

Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russ ...

and the deployment of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine in the

War in Donbas The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014), began in April 2014, when Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, Russian para ...

, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatsenyuk announced his intentions to resume the bid for NATO membership in August 2014. In December 2014, Ukraine's parliament voted to drop non-aligned status. On 30 September 2022, Ukraine formally applied to join NATO, following Russia's annexation of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.

References

External links

Individual Partnership Action Plans Website
{{NATO relations Enlargement of NATO 2002 in international relations Action plans

Participation

Ukraine

See also

References

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