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Wide shot afternoon session of NATO summit2. British Prime Minister Tony Blair talking3. US National Security advisor, Condolezza Rice, arriving and talking to delegates4. Various US President George W. Bush, US Secretary of State,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide shot afternoon session of NATO summit\u003cbr/\u003e2. British Prime Minister Tony Blair talking\u003cbr/\u003e3. US National Security advisor, Condolezza Rice, arriving and talking to delegates\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various US President George W. Bush, US Secretary of State, Colin Powell and US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld talking to various leaders and delegates\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English): Lord Robertson, NATO Secretary General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'd like on behalf of my colleagues on the North Atlantic council to welcome the Presidents, Prime Ministers of Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to this special meeting of the North Atlantic council, the first of many meetings of this kind.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Latvian President Vaira Vike Freiberga\u003cbr/\u003e7. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi clapping\u003cbr/\u003e8. Wide shot summit\u003cbr/\u003e9. US President George W. Bush clapping, pan of new members\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lord Robertson, NATO Secretary General:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Your accession will enhance your security, strengthen NATO and help build a Europe democratically united free and peace. But as everyone knows, your work is far from over. Membership of the world's most effective security and defence organisation carries  heavy responsibilities and there is simply no room for passengers. Every NATO member has add value, to be a net producer of security in an uncertain world.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vaclav Havel, Czech President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The Alliance's decision to open itself once again to the new European democracies signifies that that the unnatural division of Europe has come to an end in real terms, and that the last surviving remnant of the iron curtain - that strange psychological wall that used to separate the old democracies from the post communist ones - is finally breaking down.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot summit\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Georgi Parvanov, Bulgarian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It will be no exaggeration to compare today's decision for the enlargement of NATO with the fall of the Berlin wall. Because here in Prague as years ago in Berlin we have closed one of the last pages of history of injustice and lack of a strategic vision. From this day on we Bulgarians will associate Prague not only with the beautiful architecture and the Czech people's hospitality, with the names of Constantine Iricik and Jan Matvischke (spellings to be confirmed) with the Velvet revolution and the dismantling of the Warsaw treaty. From this day on, for us Bulgarian, Prague will be a cornerstone in the new European history.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid shot Lord Robertson introducing Romanian president \u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ion Iliescu, Romanian President:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For Romania and its citizens it is an invitation to open a new page of history. It is an invitation to join a family, to which culturally and spiritually we have always belonged.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovak Prime Minister\u003cbr/\u003e\"Today we took an important step toward our common vision, one step toward invigorating the security of all of us. Slovakia feels it share of responsibility for the success of this process. Let me assure you that this responsibility will be the driving force between all our efforts.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot summit\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Janez Drnovsek, Slovenian Prime Minister: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The road we travelled in reaching this goal was full of challenges and sometimes disappointments. Nonetheless throughout this period Slovenia always stood firmly by NATO as a reliable partner acting in the spirit of the alliance.I believe this reflects the keen awareness in Slovenia that we owe part of our success as a country to NATO which brought stability to our immediate neighbourhood by decisively intervening in the Balkans. In other words, we know that NATO has already contributed to our security.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Various signing ceremony \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot hall with leaders assembling for photo\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid shot leaders on stage\u003cbr/\u003e21. Side shot family portrait, pan to press\u003cbr/\u003e22. Pan of current NATO leaders \u003cbr/\u003e23. Cutaway journalists\u003cbr/\u003e24. Pan of leaders, plus the leaders of the seven East European countries that will enter the alliance in 2004\u003cbr/\u003e25. Leaders walking off stage after photo-op\u003cbr/\u003eLeaders of seven East European nations that will enter NATO in 2004 hailed their invitations to the alliance on Thursday as a milestone in arduous, still far-from-finished efforts to stitch Europe back together after the Cold War.\u003cbr/\u003eU.S. President George W. Bush and the other 18 NATO leaders gathered here for a summit, endorsed a historic eastward shift, agreeing to bring into NATO the three Baltic states - Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania - along with Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Thursday afternoon, they met with their counterparts from the newcomer nations who spoke eloquently about extending NATO's security guarantee eastward into regions that were part of the Soviet Union just over a decade ago.\u003cbr/\u003eBulgarian President Georgi Parvanov said: \"It will be no exaggeration to compare today's decision for the enlargement of NATO with the fall of the Berlin wall.\"\u003cbr/\u003eRomanian President Ion Iliescu, whose country missed NATO's first expansion round in 1999 when Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were taken in, said it was a historic moment that represented a \"radical break with the past.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBut much hard work still lies ahead, as some of the newcomers noted.\u003cbr/\u003eJanez Drnovsek, Slovenian Prime Minister welcomed the invitation, and said: \"It is an invitation to join a family, to which culturally and spiritually we have always belonged.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNATO's eastward expansion parallels a similar but much more complicated operation by the European Union, whose leaders are to conclude entry talks with Cyprus, Malta and eight East European neighbours next month.\u003cbr/\u003eNATO and the EU want to formally take in their newcomers on May 1, 2004.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' type='button'\u003e\n\u003ci class='fai fa-solid fa-align-left'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cspan id='read_more'\u003eRead More\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/button\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-report'\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv 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