Estonia: Get Georgia and Ukraine in NATO Now
Lee on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says the West must act fast:
“They should take Ukraine immediately into NATO, and what is left of Georgia,” he told Reuters by telephone, adding that a decision this year not to give the two countries a road map to membership had persuaded Russia it had free hand in the region.
(Reuters)
If only it could be done, especially for Ukraine. The crisis there is building and more strategically vital, as Victor Yushchenko has followed through on the threat to restrict Russia’s use of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol.
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