*1999 NATO's illegal bombing of [[Serbia]] to carve out [[Kosovo]].<ref>https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1813&context=ilj</ref>
*1999 NATO's illegal bombing of [[Serbia]] to carve out [[Kosovo]].<ref>https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1813&context=ilj</ref>
*2004: Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia join NATO, as do the first three former [[Soviet]] republics (the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
*2004: Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia join NATO, as do the first three former [[Soviet]] republics (the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
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*2005 [[U.S. Dept. of Defense]] signs cooperative agreement with the former Soviet Republic of Ukraine for operation of biological laboratories.<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/documents/organization/95251.pdf</ref>
*2006 Bucharest Summit welcomes former Soviet Republics of [[Ukraine]] and the [[Republic of Georgia]].
*2006 Bucharest Summit welcomes former Soviet Republics of [[Ukraine]] and the [[Republic of Georgia]].