Bucharest Nine

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• Recently, the envoys rejected the Russian claim (which has been amplified by the Chinese) about the eastward “expansion” of NATO & and mentioned the unjustified Russian aggression in Ukraine”.

Bucharest Nine

• The “Bucharest Nine” is a group of nine NATO countries in Eastern Europe that became part of the US-led military alliance after the end of the Cold War. 
• The B 9 or Bucharest Format, often abbreviated as the B9, was founded on November 4, 2015, and takes its name from Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
• The group was created on the initiative of Klaus Iohannis, who has been President of Romania since 2014, and Andrzej Duda, who became President of Poland in August 2015, at the High-Level Meeting of the States from Central and Eastern Europe in Bucharest.
• The members of B9 are Romania and Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the three Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
• All members of the B9 are part of the European Union (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO).
• It is also regarded as the “voice of the Eastern Flank” in the NATO alliance.
• B9 offers a platform for deepening the dialogue and consultation among the participant allied states across the members of NATO.

Source: IE