"Taking into consideration all the support that the North Atlantic Alliance has consecutively given to this new state of Europe ... all of us hope that this road will be much shorter," he said. "But we must say that this is a step forward."
„Uzimajući u obzir svu podršku koju je Severnoatlantski savez neprekidno pružao ovoj novoj evropskoj državi... svi se nadamo da će taj put biti puno kraći“, rekao je on. „Ali, moramo reći da je ovo korak napred“.