The US had backed Nato membership for Georgia and Ukraine Nato has confirmed it will not yet offer membership to Georgia or Ukraine after the 26-member alliance was split amid strong objections from Russia. Moscow said Nato's promise at a summit in Romania that the nations would join one day was a "huge strategic mistake". Macedonia vowed to leave the summit after it was denied entry. Albania and Croatia were given the green light. Nato members were set to endorse US plans for anti-missile defences in Europe, which Russia has opposed. US and Czech officials have agreed to base a missile defence radar on Czech soil. Georgia's and Ukraine's membership in the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have most serious consequences for pan-European security
Alexander Grushko
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Georgia eyes Iraq route Greek veto for Macedonia bid This issue is something of a success for US diplomacy, says the BBC's Jonathan Marcus from the summit. However, the US had also called for Georgia, Ukraine and Macedonia to be allowed to join, so the decision to postpone their membership process was a setback for President George W Bush, our correspondent adds. A night of diplomatic wrangling over the new members had poisoned the summit's atmosphere, he says. 'Not happy' The alliance decided not to offer Ukraine and Georgia a membership action plan - a gateway to membership - but agreed on Thursday to review this in December. Nato Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a news conference that Georgia and Ukraine would become members eventually. Germany and France had been opposed to putting the two nations on the path to membership, amid concerns voiced by Russia over Nato's eastward expansion.
Q&A;: Missile defence Row as Nato door creaks open "Georgia's and Ukraine's membership in the alliance is a huge strategic mistake which would have most serious consequences for pan-European security," Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on the sidelines of the summit. Georgian diplomats said they were "not happy" with the delay but welcomed the promise of eventual membership. Macedonian officials said their rejection was a "huge disappointment" that would undermine stability in the Balkans, and said they would leave the three-day summit early. Macedonia's membership was strongly opposed by Greece, which has a northern province that is also called Macedonia. It argued that the former Yugoslav republic's insistence on being known as Macedonia implied a territorial claim. Separately, President Nicolas Sarkozy indicated France would return next year to the Nato military command it left in 1966 in protest at the dominance of US commanders. He also said a battalion of extra French troops would be deployed to Afghanistan, easing fears of a crisis within the Western coalition there. The US says the French move, expected to involve up to 1,000 extra soldiers, will free up some of its troops to move to southern Afghanistan, where Canada had demanded Nato reinforcements be sent. Canada's parliament voted last month to extend its military mission in volatile southern Afghanistan to 2011 - but only if its allies sent reinforcements.
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O Presidente da Geórgia,  assinou ontem, um acordo de cessar-fogo, na presença da Secretária de Estado, .

Mikheil Saakashvili em 10 de maio de 2005.
Um documento idêntico, exigindo a retirada imediata de todas as forças russas do solo da Geórgia, foi assinado em 16 de agosto em  com o presidente russo, . Saakashvili afirmou que irá Geórgia "nunca, jamais resgate" para a Rússia. O documento de cessar-fogo foi originalmente elaborado por , o presidente da .

Saakashvili afirmou que a  tinha sido "convidado agressão russa" ao rejeitar a tentativa da Geórgia voltar a entrar na OTAN em abril deste ano. Entretanto, em um relatório prontamente negado pelo funcionário russo, a  afirmou que tinha provas de que a Rússia atacou zonas povoadas da Geórgia com internacionalmente as proibidas .

Rice chegou na Geórgia ontem e de acordo com Saakashvili, a par reuniu durante cerca de cinco horas.  Na sequência do encontro, foi realizada uma conferência de imprensa em que Saakashvili afirmou que ele tinha de fato, assinaram o acordo. Mas ele salientou que "este não é um acordo já estabelecido. Temos de envidar todos os esforços para dissuadir tal comportamento no futuro."

Rice já exigiu que as forças russas da Geórgia retirarem imediatamente. O acordo também fornece proteção para a Geórgia e um "plano de reconstrução", bem como permitir que certas concessões para a Rússia. 

Rússia havia avançado fora da província da  em 7 de agosto de ajuda aos rebeldes da Ossétia do Sul o que tinha sido combatido as tropas georgiano. No dia 11 de agosto tropas russas avançaram dentro do território georgiano para a base na . Medvedev disse que ele havia ordenado as tropas russas para começar a sair da Geórgia em 11 de agosto.

O acordo de cessar-fogo assinado ontem pelo presidente georgiano foi transmitido por fax na madrugada de hoje, à Rússia por meio da diplomacia americana.

O documento é idêntico ao assinado pelos presidentes da Abkházia e Ossétia do Sul, dois territórios separatistas georgianos, segundo uma fonte do ministério russo das Relações Exteriores. A expectativa é que o acordo seja assinado agora pela Rússia. 




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