"Macedonia has de facto become NATO member" (Tanjug, B92)
National Coordinator for NATO Stevo Pendarovski said that Macedonia has de facto became a member of NATO. This happened when the alliance's member states signed the accession protocol, he said.
"Today, after a full 26 years since the declaration in the Macedonian parliament, we became a de facto member of NATO. This accomplished the greatest strategic goal which all the political elites and leaderships since (independence) September 8, 1991 held until now," he wrote on Twitter.