NATO official Colomina: Russia wants to dictate choices countries like Georgia, Ukraine
NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia Javier Colomina says that the alliance remains committed to the promise that Georgia and Ukraine will one day become its members. Photo: Javier Colomina’s Twitter account.
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Spanish diplomat Javier Colomina, who has recently taken the office of NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, says Russia wants to dictate the choices countries like Georgia and Ukraine, responding to Moscow’s recent demand that the alliance should rescind a 2008 commitment to Ukraine and Georgia that they would one day become members.
#Russia wants to dictate the choices countries like #Ukraine and #Georgia get to make with regard to their own future. As #NATO Foreign ministers expressed recently in Riga, we are committed to the decisions adopted in the 2008 Bucharest summit. pic.twitter.com/Lca7qoPJbO
— Javier Colomina (@JavierColominaP) December 12, 2021
Russia called on NATO member states on Friday to rescind the 2008 Bucharest Summit declaration supporting Georgia and Ukraine's bid to become members of the alliance.
The statement, issued by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanded the security guarantees from the United States and its allies.
In the fundamental interests of European security, it is necessary to formally disavow the decision of the 2008 NATO Bucharest Summit that ‘Ukraine and Georgia will become NATO members,' the Russian MFA wrote.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has responded to the statement, maintaining that the alliance's position remains unchanged.