Droa: We Condemn Russia's Statement, This is Another Disturbing Revisionist Move
By The Messenger Staff
Monday, December 13
Political party Droa condemns the request of the Russian Foreign Ministry to cancel the promise made at the 2008 NATO Bucharest Summit regarding Georgia and Ukraine's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance.
According to the party statement, this demand is another disturbing revisionist step by Russia.
To continue the security dialogue with the United States, Russia has ‘asked NATO’ to renounce the promise made to Ukraine and Georgia at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that they would sooner or later become members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
This is another troubling revisionist move by Russia, showing its true motives in any kind of ‘dialogue’ with the West. The party's time to condemn this move by Russia, and we firmly believe that right now is the right time for the free world to uphold freedom and democracy, and to immediately offer Georgia and Ukraine membership action plans. “There is no time to lose,” the statement said.
Russia's Foreign Ministry is urging NATO to reverse its decision to allow Georgia and Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Alliance.
“It must be in the fundamental interest of European security to immediately repeal the Bucharest Summit 2008 decision to allow Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO, which contradicts the commitment of OSCE participating States not to increase their security at the expense of the security of others,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.
The Georgian side also responded to the statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Georgian Foreign Minister Zalkaliani says that the decision made at the Bucharest summit will not be reconsidered and that the issue of NATO and Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration will be decided by the country itself.
At the 2008 Bucharest Summit, NATO supported the declared decision that Georgia and Ukraine would become members of NATO.
