The organisation's numerous activities in the world show that NATO has a purpose and future which can best be seen in peace operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said.
NATO continues to support enlargement and the policy of "open doors" for all future member countries, it was said at the session. This primarily refers to the countries signatories to the US-Adriatic Charter - Croatia, Macedonia and Albania, it was said.
The dates for the future NATO enlargement have not been at the session.
The participants highlighted Croatia's contribution to the NATO's most important peace mission - in Afghanistan - and added they expected Croatia to continue reforming its Armed Forces, said the head of a delegation of the Croatian Parliament, Kresimir Cosic.
The NATO Annual Parliamentary Assembly held in Copenhagen on November 11-15, pooled representatives of 39 countries, full and associate members of NATO. Also present were representatives of countries with observer status - Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Japan, Australia, Kazkhstan, Tunisia, Egypt - and representatives of the Palestinian parliament.
The next session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will be held in Paris next year.