Should NATO accept Georgia and Ukraine ?

A fortnight prior to the NATO summit in Bucharest, the columnist Bernard Guetta proposes a solution regarding Ukraine and Georgia's request for NATO accession, something opposed by Moscow. "Rather than contemplate the problem, we could bypass it by asking Russia for the neutrality of its former possessions, Georgian, Ukrainian and Moldavian too, in exchange for a continental stabilisation and cooperation agreement. ... The European Union, America and Russia now have convergent economical and political interests. If they knew how to build-up this complementarity on the trust represented by their common respect for the complete neutrality of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldavia, they would be far better off and the world at large too. It is this path towards the Finlandisation of these countries that needs to be pursued."

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