GEORGIA AND UKRAINE NOT READY FOR NATO MEMBERSHIP

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
03.08.2009 18:08 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Georgia and Ukraine are not ready for NATO membership
at this stage. The statement was made by the new NATO Anders Fogh
Rasmussen secretary general. "They have not fulfilled the conditions
necessary at this stage," Rasmussen told his first press conference
in Brussels.

At the same time Secretary General reiterated the position of the
North Atlantic Alliance, that Georgia and Ukraine in the future will
be taken into NATO and the alliance will continue to provide them
the necessary assistance to do so, RIA Novosti reports.

Rasmussen, formally entered into the post of NATO Secretary General
on 1 August, on Monday he began its work in the Brussels headquarters
of NATO.