PATRICIA KELLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Still the same 16 flags at NATO headquarters. No new ones yet to mark the accession of three new countries, although new flag poles have been planted in preparation for Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've made the alliances stronger and Europe more secure.</s>KELLY: Part of what NATO calls it's new look means it's committed to defending the new countries if need be. But that isn't something that worries NATO's top general.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The alliance was also based on the principal, which is so very known to all movie watchers from "The Three Musketeers," all for one and one for all.</s>KELLY: The new country ambassadors now have the right to make NATO decisions.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is lot of, I would say, consensus and similarity of views with other NATO countries. So I don't expect that participation of Poland, Czech Republic or Hungary in the decision- making process would complicate this process very much.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We will be good Europeans. We will be working toward consensus, and obviously we will bring an army that has prepared for membership and which will continue its reform.</s>KELLY: Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria are also candidates for NATO membership within the next five years. (on camera): Patricia Kelly, CNN, at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
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