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NATO is engaged in a summit with a mix of topics up for discussion, from expansion of the alliance to ballistic missile defense to doctrinal changes. Though the April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is still under way, enough decisions have been made to establish the summit’s agenda regarding expansion.

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NATO: Meeting on Potential New Members

NATO issued formal membership invitations to both Albania and Croatia. All that remains now between the two Balkan nations and NATO membership is ratification by their respective parliaments, something that has never proven particularly thorny. Formal Albanian and Croatian membership is likely by 2009 or 2010.

Macedonia, however, received a conditional invitation contingent upon resolving its dispute with Greece over Macedonia’s name. Greece feels that using the name “Macedonia” implies a territorial claim to the Greek region with the same name, so Athens has used its veto to block Macedonian accession until an agreement over the naming issue is reached.

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