Authorized NATO: future membership of Ukraine and Georgia real

Ukraine and Georgia have a real chance to join the Alliance, said the Director of the NATO information Bureau in the Russian Federation Robert Pszczel.

" I think that is possible. We have an open door policy, And not the expansion of NATO, " said Pszczel on the first day of the weekend in an interview, speaking about the prospect of NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia.

explaining the membership of Georgia in NATO, Pszczel sure wants the vast number of people." No doubt, it's the desire of most Georgians. Georgia has made major steps forward, but There are still many standards that need to be finalised, " said he.

This Pszczel said that NATO " There is some kind of secret plan ", who decided to take this year. This, according to him, " you always have a political solution ".

" There are formal barriers for Georgia, they are associated with certain standards, which, we believe, in Georgia yet to be implemented fully. What will be the situation throughout the year-two to three years, that's different, " he added Pszczel.

Institutional cooperation between Georgia and NATO began in 1994, when Georgia became a member of the Partnership for peace (PfP - Parntnership for Peace). After the " rose revolution " in 2004 the cooperation between Georgia and NATO became more intense. In April 2008 in Bucharest at the conference of heads of NATO members, it was confirmed that Georgia and Ukraine in the future have the opportunity to become members of NATO - subject to compliance with the standards of the Commonwealth. At the NATO conference in early autumn, Georgia received the special status of the partner and moved to the new advanced format military cooperation with the countries-parties to the North Atlantic Commonwealth.

The third head of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko (2005-2010) took a course on the country's accession to NATO, but his successor Viktor Yanukovych (2010-2014) has achieved a legislative recognition of the non-aligned status of Ukraine. The Cabinet at the end of summer submitted to the Parliament the law on the abolition of non-aligned status and resume course to join NATO. As said Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the purpose of Kiev, " the special status between Ukraine and NATO ". Later, however, the Committee on problems of national security and defense Glad recommended to consider the question of the abolition of the non-aligned status of Ukraine's new Parliament.


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