NATO has undergone a profound transformation by inviting seven former communist countries to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to provide decisive support in the fight against terrorism. This was made clear at the Prague Summit held in November, and the Group of Seven (Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) expressed their satisfaction during their visit to Spain at their imminent entry as NATO allies in 2004.
Vytautas Antanas Dambrava, Lithuania's ambassador, acknowledged that these are strategic countries, due to their geographical location, in a fight where the enemy is the specter of terrorism.
From now on, the door remains open for the future incorporation of Albania, Macedonia and Croatia, who have also requested integration, into an Organization founded in 1949 with 12 member states: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Great Britain and the United States, to which Greece and Turkey were later added in 1952, Germany in 1955, Spain in 1982 and the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in 1999.
Nineteen member states for a global military organization that will have 26 allies by 2004.
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