Macedonia started the battle for NATO membership. The government strategy is to present the new situation having resulted from the judgment of the ICJ in The Hague before the member states of the Alliance. The NATO member states will be asked to give support, assistance and perhaps advice as to what form the operation should be carried out in so Macedonia can be on the agenda at the NATO summit in Chicago.

Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki is participating in Tirana Wednesday in the meeting of the partner commission of the Adriatic Charter, whose members include Croatia and Albania, as members of NATO, and the other countries of the Western Balkans that are not members of the Alliance,  under the auspices of the USA.

Minister Poposki is set to meet the US representative and the foreign ministers of Croatia and Albania, to whom he would present the new situation following the judgment of the International Court of Justice in the run-up to the NATO summit in Chicago where Macedonia hopes to be extended an invitation for full-fledged membership.