Focus series on the 7 countries invited to join NATO: Bulgaria Estonia Latvia Lithuania Romania Slovakia Slovenia

Slovenia News 29/03/2004 - NATO Seven new members join NATO 02/03/2004 - NATO Seven invitees on the verge of NATO membership 11/02/2004 - NATO One step closer to an enlarged NATO 26/03/2003 - NATO Accession protocols signed 10/03/2003 - NATO Lord Robertson continues visits to invitee countries 10/02/2003 - NATO Slovenian Prime Minister visits NATO Biographies Senior Partner Government Officials NATO Invitee Ministers of Foreign Affairs NATO Invitee Chiefs of Staff NATO Invitee Ministers of Defence Permanent representative to NATO for Slovenia Multimedia 19/01/2004 Video interview with Ambassador Matjaž Šinkovec Images of Slovenia Flag and Anthem Map of Slovenia Background November 2002 - NATO The Road to NATO membership Links Slovenia and NATO Atlantic Council of Slovenia Public relations and media office Slovenia became a NATO partner country in 1994. At the November 2002 Prague Summit, along with six other countries it was invited to join the Alliance. Slovenia in NATO The democratically-expressed political will for Slovenia to join NATO is first clearly expressed in the supplements to the Resolution on the Starting-Points for a National Security Plan, adopted in Slovenia's National Assembly in January 1994. More... Looking to NATO membership "In spite of all the changes NATO has gone through in the past decade and a half, the Alliance is still predominantly a collective defense organization. By joining NATO Slovenia is providing for its defense and security in the most appropriate way. The days of expensive, overstretched national defense are over," said Ambassador Šinkovec, Head of the Mission of the Slovenia to NATO, in a video intervieew for the NATO Web site. More... Slovenia at a glance The Republic of Slovenia lies at the heart of Europe where the Alps and the Mediterranean meet the Pannonian plains and the mysterious Karst. Slovenia has a population of 2 million and its capital city is Ljubljana. More...