accession
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Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs said later that France's President Emmanuel Macron had agreed to start talks on Latvia's "accession to the French nuclear deterrence initiative".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Meanwhile, countries like Sweden and Finland for years remained nonaligned but maintained strong armed forces, said Tobias Billström, who was the Swedish foreign minister during the country’s accession to NATO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The question on the ballot was: "Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European Union?"
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
It warned of a possible wave of arrivals on the occasion of Throne Day, which marks the anniversary of King Mohammed VI’s accession to the throne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
A somewhat more immediate influence was Aristotle himself, whose death in 322 happened to coincide with Ptolemy’s accession to the governorship of Egypt.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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