NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says he will try to persuade all NATO members to back the idea of extending a Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Ukraine.
Scheffer was speaking at news conference in Kiev after winding up a two-day visit to the ex-Soviet state. A NATO summit in Bucharest in April declined to grant MAP to Ukraine and ex-Soviet Georgia, but agreed to review the issue at a meeting of foreign ministers in December. Pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko has made NATO and EU membership the cornerstone of his foreign policy. He has pledged that the final decision on membership would be put to a referendum.
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