Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania justified convincingly their wish to join NATO, says a resolution on NATO enlargement, drafted by Germany’s governing social-democratic and green coalition and adopted by the German Parliament. The efforts Albania and Macedonia made in this respect were also assessed. In the opinion of the German MPs however these two countries have a lot more to do in order to become mature enough to join NATO. Bundestag called on the Cabinet to use this basis for achieving European –American consensus on NATO enlargement. Germany’s Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said that NATO’s large-scale enlargement is in the interest of Germany, Europe and USA, but did not name concrete countries. Bulgaria and Romania’s role in bringing stability to the region was also underlined. It was recorded that Bulgaria’s strategic location moves it closer to NATO entry than any technical criteria. The only political party in Bundestag which took a stand against NATO enlargement was the German Party of Democratic Socialism, a successor to the Communist Party of the German Democratic Republic.