The US President George Bush has ended his European tour after embracing the invitation of seven eastern European nations to join Nato, saying their entry would 'lift and invigorate' the alliance.
The states fomally invited to join the alliance are the Baltic states of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia, as well as Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia.
This afternoon Mr Bush addressed an audience of tens of thousands of people in Revolution Square in the Romanian capital Bucharest - the place that symbolises the collapse of communism and the overthrow of President Nicolae Ceausescu 13 years ago.
Earlier, thousands turned out in the Lithuanian capital,Vilnius, to hear Mr Bush -the first American president to visit the country.
