The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will "make a historic decision" on the admission of three Balkan nations – Croatia, Albania, and Macedonia, US President George W. Bush said in Bucharest on Wednesday.

"The United States strongly supports inviting these nations to join NATO," Bush said in his 20-minute keynote address on the occasion of the Transatlantic Forum, organized on the sidelines of the NATO Summit.

Bush said at the same time that NATO should also welcome Georgia and Ukraine into the Membership Action Plan at the summit.

(Xinhua News Agency April 2, 2008)