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NATO fails to agree on Ukraine, Georgia: diplomat

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Wed Apr 2, 2008 5:11pm EDT

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BUCHAREST (Reuters) - NATO allies failed to agree at a summit on Wednesday to put the former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia on a path to membership of the alliance, a NATO diplomat said.

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"Germany's position didn't change," the diplomat said after leaders of the 26-nation alliance discussed enlargement of Western defense organization at a summit dinner in Bucharest.

Chancellor Angela Merkel had said before the meeting that Berlin thought it was too soon to offer a Membership Action Plan to either country. Russia had fiercely opposed what it sees as a NATO encroachment into its historic sphere of influence.

(Reporting by Ilona Wissenbach, writing by Paul Taylor)
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