BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5137 HINA Zagreb, 14 November 2003

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5137 HINA Zagreb, 14 November 2003 CROATIA MIGHT BE INVITED TO JOIN NATO AFTER ISTANBUL - SIMONOVICWASHINGTON, Nov 14 (Hina) - Croatia might receive the announcement of an invitation to join NATO at the summit the alliance is due to hold in Istanbul next year and be invited to become a full member at the summit after that, possibly in 2006, Croatian Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Simonovic said in Washington on Thursday. Simonovic is in the U.S. capital together with representatives of Albania and Macedonia for talks with U.S. officials on the progress Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia have made in preparations to join NATO. The talks at the Woodrow Wilson Institute were held with Douglas Bereuter, chairman of the Subcommittee on Europe of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. Simonovic told Croatian reporters Bereuter said there was no resistance to the further enlargement of NATO which might include