The State Department says the three new members  enhance NATO's ability to fulfill its core mission of collective defense, respond to a range of security challenges and reduce the possibility of another major conflict in Europe of the kind that has claimed so many American lives.  NATO Secretary General Javier Solana (says),  The accession of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland... is perhaps the clearest demonstration of the fact that Europe is growing closer together.   
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