U.S. CONGRESS APPROVED BILL ON SUPPORTING GEORGIA AND UKRAINE’S MEMBERSHIP TO NATO

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.03.2007 18:05 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The bill on supporting Georgia and Ukraine’s
membership to NATO has been sent to U.S. President George Bush for
confirmation. This document titled "Law for strengthening freedom
in the NATO framework" was approved by House representatives of the
American Congress in its final shape.

Particularly, the document supposes assignment of financial means
from the U.S. budget in he framework of preparing these countries for
NATO membership. The bill has been sent to the President after it
was approved in its final shape by the conciliatory committee. The
bill was unanimously approved by House representatives in its first
reading March 6, and the Senate approved practically the similar text
on March 15.

The preamble of the document says that it is aimed at "supporting
further enlargement of NATO and assistance of timely acceptance
of new members into the organization". It indicates that further
preservation of stability and security in Europe demands military,
economic and political integration of arising democracies into existing
European structures".

In this respect Georgia, Ukraine, Albania, Croatia and Macedonia are
mentioned in the document.

It supposes assignment of financial aid to the above-mentioned
countries for strengthening their security. The text of the bill
does not indicate the sum of money due to be assigned, but earlier
some representatives of the Bush administration used to say that
Georgia could receive $10 million, Macedonia $3.6 million, Albania
$3.2 million and Croatia $3 million, ITAR-TASS reports.