Participants in the fifth meeting of the U.S.-Adriatic Charter Partnership Commission will be Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Minister Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and her colleagues, Ilinka Mitrova of Macedonia and Besnik Mustafaj of Albania.
The three ministers will meet with the Under Secretary for Political Affairs in the State Department, Nicholas Burns, to discuss the individual progress of each of the three countries candidates for admission into NATO and their cooperation in the region.
Croatia hopes that it will be invited to join the alliance in 2008 at the latest.
The U.S.-Adriatic Charter was signed in 2003 by the United States and Croatia, Albania and Macedonia.
Officials of Serbia-Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina which also aspire to enter NATO, will attend the Washington meeting.