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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

NATO to discuss expansion as it gathers for summit in Bucharest

A three-day NATO summit opens Wednesday in the capital of Romania, Bucharest, which will focus among other issues on the alliance's controversial eastern expansion into former Soviet territories.

Two former Soviet republics, Ukraine and Georgia, are hoping that during the summit they will be given the go ahead to enter the Membership Action Plan (MAP), a precursor for membership in the Western military alliance.

Russia, which is not a NATO member and has no right of veto in the organization, vehemently opposes the Western military alliance's expansion around its borders as it sees it as a threat to its national security.

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