Kyiv, November 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The Seimas, the Lithuanian parliament, has passed a resolution on granting the NATO Membership Action Plan to Ukraine and Georgia, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported on Friday.
The parliament of Lithuania has called for the admission of Ukraine and Georgia to the MAP at a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers on December 2-3.
The MPs called on the parliaments and governments of the NATO member-states to support this position.
The Seimas has supported and will support Georgia and Ukraine’s speedy rapprochement with the alliance, the resolution reads. All the existing resources of cooperation should be used for this rapprochement, it adds.
Referring to the Bucharest summit decision, the Lithuanian parliamentarians said that the next step should be granting the MAP to Ukraine and Georgia.
As reported, at a Bucharest summit in April 2008 NATO representatives agreed that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually become members of the alliance.
