Declaration by the Presidents of Lithuania and Poland on Granting NATO Membership Action Plan to Ukraine and Georgia
"Russian actions in the sovereign country of Georgia have gone far beyond any reasonable steps to ensure the safety of civilians and peacekeepers and have escalated to open looting, targeted destruction of Georgian economy, landscape and nature, and killings which have the obvious signs of ethnic cleansing in the territories controlled by Russian troops.
Taking reference to the Bucharest NATO Declaration, which clearly stresses that Georgia and Ukraine will be NATO members, we ask the NATO leaders to instruct their ministers of foreign affairs to consider granting NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) to Georgia and Ukraine as soon as possible.
Observing the uncontrolled violence and the use of force in Georgia, we see the granting of NATO MAP as the only means to stabilize the region and bring security to ordinary people".
President of the Republic of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus
President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński
