Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Steven Pifer, a senior adviser with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, had a commentary published by the International Herald Tribune, "It's Time for Ukraine to get Started."
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Steven Pifer, a senior adviser with the CSIS Russia and Eurasia Program, had a commentary published by the International Herald Tribune, "It's Time for Ukraine to get Started."
At NATO headquarters last Friday, the Ukrainian foreign minister presented a request from his government for a membership action plan for Ukraine, which Kiev hopes will be approved when the alliance's 26 leaders meet in Bucharest in April.
NATO should say yes.
The goal of NATO enlargement since the mid-1990s has been to achieve a broader, more secure Europe. This has driven alliance decisions to take in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary in 1999, and seven additional Baltic and Central European states in 2004. Those decisions have produced a more stable and integrated Europe, and underpin the dramatic democratic and economic transformations made by the new member states.
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