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| Bush backs Ukraine on Nato bid | Bush backs Ukraine on Nato bid |
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| US President George W Bush has voiced his support for Ukraine's membership of Nato, during a visit to Kiev. | US President George W Bush has voiced his support for Ukraine's membership of Nato, during a visit to Kiev. |
| Sitting beside President Viktor Yushchenko, Mr Bush said Kiev had made a bold decision to request membership and the US "strongly supported it". | Sitting beside President Viktor Yushchenko, Mr Bush said Kiev had made a bold decision to request membership and the US "strongly supported it". |
| Mr Bush said he would press Nato allies in Romania this week to support Membership Action Plans for both Ukraine and Georgia. | Mr Bush said he would press Nato allies in Romania this week to support Membership Action Plans for both Ukraine and Georgia. |
| Russia is fiercely opposed to the eastward expansion of Nato. | Russia is fiercely opposed to the eastward expansion of Nato. |
| Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told a hearing of the lower house of the Russian parliament, the Duma, that Ukrainian membership of the Western alliance would "entail a deep crisis in Russian-Ukrainian relations". | |
| He said Ukraine would become a buffer between Europe and Russia. | |
| The West, he added, had to make a strategic choice because "this crisis will also affect in the most adverse way pan-European security too". |