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An early meeting with Putin, who became Russian president in 2000. “Putin said: ‘When are you going to invite us to join NATO?’ Former secretary-general of NATO Sir Robertson replied: “Well, we don’t invite people to join NATO, they have apply to join NATO.” And Putin replied,: “Well, we’re not standing in line with a lot of countries that don’t matter.’”
There is a very interesting and informative interview on YouTube Times Radio interview with former secretary-general of NATO Sir Robertson. ( googled “ Could Ukraine really join NATO?) Where the former secretary-general answers “ In May 2002 at the Rome Summit, attended by heads of State and Governments of NATO countries and Russian Federation, NATO-Russia were forging a new relationship among other agreements, Putin signed a declaration ”Where he agreed that independent countries had the right to decide their own security.” According to the Lord Robertson when he was NATO secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council during nine meetings Putin attended, Putin never made any objections of the three Baltic Sates becoming members of NATO, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia which were formally part of the USSR.
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