Quote: The NATO Bucharest Summit was a strategic success for Ukraine and for NATO. While the North Atlantic alliance did not offer Ukraine an immediate Membership Action Plan (MAP), every one of NATO’s leaders joined together to make a much more important commitment:Ukraine can join NATO as soon as it is ready. The door is not only wide open, the table is set with a place for Ukraine already reserved.
The summit communique is clear: “NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s aspiration for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.”
President Yushchenko rightly called this a historic decision that exceeded his expectations. The decision exceeded the expectations of virtually all NATO members as well. Before last Thursday, no country applying for membership into this club of likeminded democracies had ever been promised acceptance before making a formal application.
The path to membership — should Ukraine decide to follow it — leads through a process called a MAP. Last Thursday, all the NATO leaders supported Ukraine’s desire to start down that path. Ukraine’s request to begin that process of reform will be reviewed by NATO’s foreign ministers this December. If they agree, as most NATO countries did last week, the membership process will begin. The leaders have already stated where it will end.
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