A conference was held in the framework of the NATO summit. It was dedicated to issues of the NATO enlargement and security issues. An international coordinator of the Charter\u201997, one of the leaders of the campaign \u201cEuropean Belarus\u201d takes part in the conference. He has commented the situation around the issue of including Ukraine and Georgia in the MAP.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe official decision hasn\u2019t been taken yet, but one should stress that there is a consensus on this issue among all the NATO member countries. Formal invitation is not expected during this summit. However in general the results could be viewed as positive, as long as the NATO will take a decision that in the near future Ukraine and Georgia are to be granted a possibility to join the MAP after conforming some criterions,\u201d Sannikov said.<\/p>\n
He has also noted that \u201cthe fact that Ukraine and Georgia\u2019s joining the NATO was discussed at the summit is very important as such. It means that these countries are already in the context of the NATO policy and future plans on the NATO growth\u201d.<\/p>\n
However, the most important thing according to the Charter\u201997 coordinator is the fact that \u201cmost of the countries have a very positive attitude to Ukraine and Georgia\u2019s accession, and the most important thing which was underscored during the discussion of the issue, is that no third countries would be able to influence the decision on these countries\u2019 joining the bloc,\u201d Andrei Sannikov stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The NATO countries haven\u2019t taken the decision to include Ukraine and Georgia in the Membership Action Plan (MAP). Receiving such a status is considered is generally believed the first step towards joining the world’s biggest military bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/europeanbelarus.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}