"I strongly believe that Ukraine and Georgia should be given MAP, " Bush said.

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They have been intrigued to learn from the Russian media that despite his anger over missile defense and over Bush's appeal to the NATO members to give MAP status to Georgia and Ukraine, despite his shipping this week of "humanitarian supplies" to Serbs in Kosovo, Putin is planning to accentuate the positive in Bucharest.

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We saw the same fault line at the NATO summit in April that failed to offer a membership action plan (MAP) to either Georgia or Ukraine, further emboldening Mr. Putin to provoke the Georgians into an unwinnable war.

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