Ukraine, Georgia Membership in NATO 'Against Alliance's Rules'

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Ukraine and Georgia's NATO membership is against the alliance's rules because both countries are currently involved in internal conflicts, and thus the accession should be prevented, one of the organizers of Counter-NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland Reiner Braun, told Sputnik on Friday.

Montenegro's Foreign Minister Igor Luksic (at table, 2nd R) delivers remarks with Defense Minister Milica Pejanovic (3rd R) after Montenegro was welcomed as a new member at the NATO ministerial meetings at the NATO headquarters in Brussels December 2, 2015 - Sputnik International
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WARSAW (Sputnik) — Braun, who is also a co-president of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) disarmament NGO, also stressed the need for NATO to invite Russia for a peace dialogue.

"We don't need any new NATO countries. Even small Montenegro should be independent. We support solidarity protests against NATO in Montenegro. Ukraine's NATO membership is absolutely against NATO rules as it is very clearly mentioned that a country that has internal fights and conflicts could not become a member of NATO. That clearly applies to Georgia as well. The frozen conflicts are still there,” Braun said.

Both Georgia and Ukraine are currently NATO partners and regularly engage in military training and capacity building exercises with the alliance. Montenegro will be the first new state to join the alliance since 2008, if the alliance unanimously agrees on its accession.

The NATO summit is taking place in the Polish capital on July 8-9.

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