2008 om Ukraina, Georgien och NATO

At a Nato summit in Bucharest in April 2008 President George Bush pressed for Ukraine and Georgia to be awarded the MAP, but he was defeated by Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany who argued that such a step would increase friction with Russia.
Efter den ryska invasionen av Georgien = Diplomats and analysts say the Bucharest decision was a mistake that contributed to the Caucasus crisis in August.

In december 2008 president Nicolas Sarkozy of France backed Russian calls - by Medvedev - for a major summit 2009 to redefine Europes "security architecture." An international foreign ministers' meeting in Helsinki in December 2008 could see Germany, France, Russia, and Finland supporting the summit, which is opposed by the US and Britain. "We have good European security institutions," said the senior US official. "The institutions that exist are sound. I am not convinced we need a new architecture."

Här dagens debatt om Georgien och NATO. 

Här Bucharest-texten från april 2008. 

1. NATO welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO.  We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.  Both nations have made valuable contributions to Alliance operations.  We welcome the democratic reforms in Ukraine and Georgia and look forward to free and fair parliamentary elections in Georgia in May.  MAP is the next step for Ukraine and Georgia on their direct way to membership.  Today we make clear that we support these countries’ applications for MAP.  Therefore we will now begin a period of intensive engagement with both at a high political level to address the questions still outstanding pertaining to their MAP applications.  We have asked Foreign Ministers to make a first assessment of progress at their December 2008 meeting.  Foreign Ministers have the authority to decide on the MAP applications of Ukraine and Georgia.