Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his NATO counterparts on the possibility of offering a Membership Action Plan for Bosnia and Herzegovina; and if he will make a statement.

Bosnia and Herzegovina was invited to initiate their first cycle of a Membership Action Plan in 2010 on the condition that they register their immovable defence property. This condition has not yet been fulfilled.

The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my Rt Hon Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond), together with his counterparts from NATO Allies, met NATO’s aspiring members, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia and Montenegro, on 4 September 2014 during the NATO Summit in Wales to discuss their progress towards joining the Alliance.

At the Summit, the Allies reaffirmed their continued support for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s eventual membership and encouraged them to meet the established conditions on which their next steps towards NATO depend.

The United Kingdom strongly supports NATO’s Open Door policy on enlargement and welcomes the membership aspirations of all the countries currently seeking to join the Alliance.