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Georgia, Ukraine Moved to the Sidetrack
In Georgia and Ukraine, the yesterday’s highlight was the statements of the U.S. spokesmen about progressing to NATO bypassing the MAP. In the end, Tbilisi and Kiev reasoned that Washington intends to add momentum to their accession to NATO at December 2 summit of foreign ministers. Obviously agitated about this scenario, the Kremlin summoned Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin to Moscow for consultation.
It was U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried that contributed to the propagation of the potential model for NATO’s accession by Ukraine and Georgia. According to Fried, those nations may do it through other instruments bypassing the Membership Action Plan.
Fried gave no details and people in NATO’s headquarters in Brussels are evasive when it comes to this issue, specifying the ultimate decision depends on the allies. The thing is that Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary really joined the alliance without MAP, but it happened before the era of MAP, which emerged only in 1999.
At the same time, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is said to be aggressively negotiating with top-ranked officials of Europe to win their agreement for easing the NATO’s entry for Ukraine and Georgia. According to western media, Washington endeavors to solve the issue in principal before George Bush steps down.
The Kremlin noticed the efforts. Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin flew to Moscow past night to deliberate on forthcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 27, 2008
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