Fact Sheet Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Washington, DC April 10, 2006 Adriatic CharterSecretary of State Colin Powell, together with his colleagues, Foreign Ministers Meta, Picula and Mitreva, signed the Adriatic Charter in Tirana, Albania, May 2, 2003. The Adriatic Charter, an initiative in the spirit of the 1998 U.S.-Baltic Charter, was proposed jointly by the Presidents of Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia to President Bush at the NATO Prague Summit in November 2002. President Bush welcomed the Adriatic initiative as a strong contribution toward his vision of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. The Charter builds on the achievements of the NATO Prague Summit by reinforcing continued U.S. support for the Alliance's "Open Door," underscoring the goal of Albania's, Croatia's, and Macedonia's eventual full integration into NATO and other Euro-Atlantic institutions. The Charter:
The Adriatic Charter members’ Foreign Ministers most recently met in Washington, D.C. in February 2006, along with representatives from Serbia and Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Another meeting is being planned for April 2006 in Brijuni, Croatia, which would also include the Foreign and Defense Ministers of the Baltic countries. In August 2005, the Adriatic Charter sent a joint 12-person medical team to ISAF in Afghanistan, stationed in Kabul. This was the first such international mission the Adriatic Charter members conducted jointly.
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