Friday, May 28, 2010

Ukraine Will No Longer Seek NATO Membership

Ukraine Drops Nato Membership Pursuit -- The Telegraph

Ukraine formally stopped pursuing NATO membership as an aim, with its foreign minister declaring the issue had been taken off the policy agenda.

Membership of the U.S.-led military alliance was ardently pursued by the pro-Western ex-president Viktor Yushchenko, despite widespread indifference in the country and lack of encouragement from the alliance itself.

But under the new leaderhip of Viktor Yanukovich, who came to power in February and has tilted the ex-Soviet republic back towards Moscow in several areas of policy, has made clear NATO membership was being pushed on to the back burner as an objective.

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My Comment: Elections have consequences .... dropping its membership with NATO is one of them.

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