Iceland’s Parliament ratified Thursday Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol, TV24 reported.

With this ratification, 28 of the 29 member states have either completed or are in the final stages of ratification of the NATO protocol, and the process remains to begin in Spain, where it depends on the completion of parliamentary elections scheduled for November 10. The ratification procedure for Macedonia’s NATO accession protocol is still in the final phase in the UK, France, the Netherlands and Italy.