STRASBOURG, April 4 (Hina) - US President Barack Obama on Saturday delivered to presidents of Stjepan Mesic of Croatia and Bamir Topi of Albania copies of the Treaty of Washington in Strasbourg at a ceremony symbolically welcoming the
two newcomers to the alliance.
STRASBOURG, April 4 (Hina) - US President Barack Obama on Saturday
delivered to presidents of Stjepan Mesic of Croatia and Bamir Topi of Albania
copies of the Treaty of Washington in Strasbourg at a ceremony symbolically
welcoming the two newcomers to the alliance. We are proud of having
you as allies, you have deserved your place at the joint table, Obama said at
the ceremony held before a session of the North Atlantic Council on the second
day of NATO's two-day summit in Germany and France.
Present at the ceremony were Croatian and Albanian Prime Ministers Ivo
Sanader and Sali Berisha.
Croatia and Albania formally joined the alliance on 1 April when they
deposited accession instruments in Washington given that the USA is the
depositary te Treaty of Washington.