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  • Feb 3rd, 2005
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Ukraine's West-leaning President Viktor Yushchenko plans to join President George W. Bush for a Nato summit on February 22 to study broadening Kiev's ties with the alliance, Nato sources and envoys said on Wednesday. They said Ukraine had requested a summit-level meeting of the Nato-Ukraine Commission during Bush's first visit to Europe after his inauguration for a second term last month.

"I hear that the overall reaction (in Nato) is positive, that there is no objection to this," Ukraine's Nato ambassador Volodymyr Khandogiy told Reuters.

Nato sources said a final decision to invite Yushchenko could come on Thursday. "The (Nato) nations are inclined to say yes," one said.

Nato cancelled a ministerial meeting with Ukraine in December over the rigging of the presidential election in which pro-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich initially claimed victory. The ballot was re-run and Yushchenko won.

Copyright Reuters, 2005


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