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| | NATO applicants want in - News news |
 | | Governmental leaders of the nine NATO applicant countries, forming the so-called Vilnius group (Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia) participated in the conference in Bratislava last Thursday and Friday. |
 | | In several working groups, the participants discussed EU-NATO partnership, ways to achieve peace and stability in Southeastern Europe and in the Euro-Atlantic region, challenges to the new democracies, the risks in Europe today, corruption and organised crime, and the strengthening of civil society in building a united free Europe. |
 | | The prime ministers of the Vilnius Group adopted a Bratislava Declaration, in which they condemned the extremists’ actions in Macedonia, welcomed the stabilising role of Bulgaria and Romania in the region, and urged the speedier enlargement of the alliance so that they could contribute to the stabilisation and reconstruction of the Western Balkans. |
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