Hungarian Parliament votes unanimously in favour of the accession of the seven invited countries to NATO [03 Jun 2003]

On 2 June 2003, the Parliament of Hungary unanimously ratified the Protocols to the Washington Treaty on accession of the seven countries - Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Rumania, Slovakia, and Slovenia - to NATO.

In his address to the parliamentarians, Political State Secretary at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs András Bársony said that the invited countries have to date been good cooperation partners for Hungary: from now on they will be its allies.

Hungary is the first of the three countries admitted to the Alliance in the previous accession round to have voted on the Protocols to the North-Atlantic Treaty. The Protocols have to date been ratified by Canada, Norway, the United States, and Denmark.

The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Latvia to Republic of Hungary, H.E. Elita Kuzma, was also present at the parliamentary session.

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