THE Americans are delighted, the Georgians and Ukrainians elated, the French and Germans happy, and the Russians not too angry.
NATO's hard-fought compromise - declaring that the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Ukraine will one day join the (...)
The prospect of France returning to NATO's military command after more than four decades of estrangement is tilting the balance of transatlantic relations.
The United States is courting France as a new partner in leadership, overshadowing Britain (...)
The United States faces west European resistance to a last-minute drive to set Georgia and Ukraine on a path to NATO membership at an alliance summit next month despite Russian opposition, NATO diplomats say.
President George W. Bush said on (...)
