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U.S: GEORGIA AND UKRAINE NOT MATURE FOR NATO YET
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2008 17:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ukraine and Georgia are not ready to join NATO yet,
according to U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Ms. Victoria Nuland.
Ukraine and Georgia have set a strategic goal - to join NATO, still
at the latest alliance summit held on April 2-4, in Bucharest, they
were not included into NATO MAP. Discussion was postponed to December.
"No NATO member can say Ukraine and Georgia have matured to join the
alliance," the ambassador said.
The U.S. supports joining of the two states to MAP, said Ms. Nuland,
as it is an "educative program of NATO, which assists to implement
democracy and reforms, settle internal problems, both countries still
have, for they were ready to the alliance membership."
"With time, Ukraine and Georgia will fit the MAP format but it will
take years," she added.
'Time will show how quickly the internal problems are settled,
and how well we can cooperate. Still I can promise that NATO will
offer membership to Ukraine and Georgia once they are more stable,
more democratic and more peaceful neighbors of Russian," Ms. Nuland
concluded, ForUm reports.
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.06.2008 17:37 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ukraine and Georgia are not ready to join NATO yet,
according to U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Ms. Victoria Nuland.
Ukraine and Georgia have set a strategic goal - to join NATO, still
at the latest alliance summit held on April 2-4, in Bucharest, they
were not included into NATO MAP. Discussion was postponed to December.
"No NATO member can say Ukraine and Georgia have matured to join the
alliance," the ambassador said.
The U.S. supports joining of the two states to MAP, said Ms. Nuland,
as it is an "educative program of NATO, which assists to implement
democracy and reforms, settle internal problems, both countries still
have, for they were ready to the alliance membership."
"With time, Ukraine and Georgia will fit the MAP format but it will
take years," she added.
'Time will show how quickly the internal problems are settled,
and how well we can cooperate. Still I can promise that NATO will
offer membership to Ukraine and Georgia once they are more stable,
more democratic and more peaceful neighbors of Russian," Ms. Nuland
concluded, ForUm reports.