Most NATO member countries believe that an invitation for membership in NATO will be extended to all three countries from the Adriatic Group at the forthcoming summit in Bucharest at the beginning of April, two senior diplomats of two NATO member countries maintain.

The NATO foreign ministers will meet in Brussels on 6 March to prepare the conclusions that the heads of their states have to adopt at the summit in Bucharest.

The two senior diplomats, who asked to remain anonymous, told a group of journalists in Brussels, “a large majority of the NATO member countries believe that the three countries from the Adriatic Group (Macedonia, Albania, and Croatia) fulfill the conditions for membership”.