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Ukraine, Georgia React to Diminished NATO Hopes
Peter Cassata | December 02, 2008Ukraine is seeking to repair relations with Russia as its hopes of entering NATO fade, the Times reports:
The reappraisal comes amid debate in Kiev about the wisdom of antagonizing the Kremlin, particularly after the confrontation between Russia and Georgia in the summer.
President Yushchenko of Ukraine has ordered a policy review in an effort to defuse tensions with Russia over his country’s pro-Western leanings. The shift is an acknowledgement that friction between Kiev and Moscow has made it harder for the European Union and NATO, particularly members such as Germany and France, to embrace Ukraine.
The news comes as NATO foreign ministers meet for a two-day summit in Brussels where the U.S. has backed off plans to push for Georgian and Ukrainian Membership Action Plans (MAPs) into the alliance. The policy review marks a major change from Yushchenko's earlier stance:
It is a remarkable change of tone for Mr. Yushchenko, who has raised fears about Russian aggression in Crimea. He had also accused Yulia Tymoshenko, his rival and Orange Revolution ally, of 'high treason' for failing to condemn the Russian intervention in South Ossetia and Georgia in August.
At the same time, the Independent notes that Saakashvili is pressing NATO not to abandon its promise of membership to Georgia (and Ukraine) at the Bucharest summit last April:
The Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili, has urged NATO members to bury their differences and agree to a "compromise" that would accelerate his country's membership of the Western military alliance, despite the fallout from Georgia's six-day war with Russia.
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"Membership is the goal," President Saakashvili said during a teleconference call from Tbilisi. "How to get there is secondary." The Georgian leader believes that the diplomatic fudge at the NATO summit emboldened Moscow to retaliate with crushing force by invading Georgia proper when the Georgian military launched an offensive against the breakaway territory of South Ossetia last August.
Mission accomplished for Russia?
