27/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - On 26 March at NATO Headquarters, the representatives of the 19 NATO member countries signed Protocols of Accession, which, once ratified by the Allies, will allow seven new states to join NATO. The signing ceremony was attended by Foreign Ministers of the new member states: Bulgaria, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia. The "accession protocols are amendments to the North Atlantic Treaty, NATO's founding document, that will permit the...