russia's threats to ukraine, georgia are challenges to u.s., nato

[Krishnamurty]

It's going to be close....

Thursday, March 27, 2008

NATO: Georgian, Ukrainian MAP Bids Likely To Go The Wire At Summit
By Ahto Lobjakas

One week before NATO leaders convene in Bucharest, Georgian officials have traveled to the alliance's headquarters in Brussels for a last-gasp bid to secure their country a Membership Action Plan (MAP), seen as a virtual guarantee of future membership.

NATO officials say the debate within NATO is likely to go to the wire at the April 2-4 summit, with the United States and fresh Eastern European member states strongly in favor, and Germany and France opposed.

In a measure of the intractability of the debate over Georgia and Ukraine, NATO officials have drafted two separate sets of declarations for the Bucharest summit -- one containing offers of MAPs, the other not.

The decision will have to be made at the highest level, by NATO presidents and prime ministers.

Officials say it is all but certain that the two countries' bids stand or fall together.

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/03/...

[Krishnamurty]

Bear wrote:

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You really believe anything Czar RasPutin says??? If so, I have some beachfront property in the middle of the Mojave Desert I would like to discuss with you.

Perhaps someone falling off the turnip truck would believe Putin, the conning psychopath.