US President George W Bush has voiced his support for Ukraine's membership of Nato, during a visit to Kiev.
Sitting beside President Viktor Yushchenko, Mr Bush said Kiev had made a bold decision to request Czech CSSD head says U.S.-Russia agreement in the offing ...
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Mr Bush said he would press Nato allies in Romania this week to support Membership Action Plans for both Ukraine and Georgia.
Russia is fiercely opposed to the eastward expansion of Nato.
Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told a hearing of the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, that Ukrainian membership of the Western alliance would "entail a deep crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations".
He said Ukraine would become a buffer between Europe and Russia.
The West, he added, had to make a strategic choice because "this crisis will also affect in the most adverse way pan-European security too".
(BBC)
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