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MOSCOW - Montenegro hopes to become a full-fledged member of NATO in mid-2017, the country's Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic has said.

“Usually, this procedure (accession to NATO) takes around a year. We believe that we will become a full-fledged member of NATO in the middle of 2017,” he told Russia’s Dozhd television station.

“The talks on our country’s accession to the alliance will be completed in a month or a month and a half. Afterwards, this will have to be ratified by the member countries,” he added.