The Croatian officials were speaking to reporters after meeting members of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) chaired by NATO Deputy Secretary-General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo.
Most of the NATO ambassadors favourably assessed Croatia's progress towards the alliance in this year's cycle of the Membership Action Plan, and some even cited "impressive results" achieved over the past few years, Grabar-Kitarovic said.
Grabar-Kitarovic informed the NAC of the specific results of the implementation of the Croatian government's action plan of cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal and the steps the government was taking to track down fugitive general Ante Gotovina.
The arrest of Gotovina is one of the crucial conditions for Croatia to become a member of NATO and the European Union.
Roncevic said that NATO ambassadors were satisfied with pace of reform of the Croatian armed forces provided for under the Strategic Defence Plan and this year's MAP cycle.
He said that Croatia currently allocated 1.85 per cent of Gross Domestic Product for the armed forces and that it planned to reach the goal of 2 per cent of GDP for defence spending within two or three years.