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Nato says membership pledge to Georgia stands
Nato said on Tuesday that its summit pledge this year that Georgia will one day become a member of the alliance still stands despite fighting with Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
- Agencies
- Published: 18:08 August 12, 2008
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Brussels: Nato said on Tuesday that its summit pledge this year that Georgia will one day become a member of the alliance still stands despite fighting with Russia over the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
"I think that the Bucharest communique stand," Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a news conference after allied ambassadors met Georgia's ambassador to discuss the crisis. "And no ally will do anything away from the Bucharest declaration ... That situation has not changed," he said.
Russia is fiercely opposed to Georgia's aspirations to join the US-led military alliance, which many analysts believe was one of the causes of this month's fighting.
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