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For the Western Balkan countries, the most stimulating factor regarding Security Sector Reform is their progress in the EU and NATO enlargement process. The implementation of the essential “Ds” in SSR – de-politicisation, de-criminalisation and democratic control – still depend very much on this external stimulus. NATO underscored the importance of the enlargement perspective for the regional stabilisation process at its Riga summit through its announcement of the possible accession of the three Adriatic Charter countries, Albania, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), to the Alliance in 2008 and by inviting Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as well as Montenegro to join the Partnership for Peace.