Georgia nato membership action plan. But that falls short of an invitation to join natos membership action plan map a formal step towards membership that georgia which fought a brief war with russia in 2008 had hoped for. Georgia and ukraine will be holding their breath for any announcement on their bids to obtain a membership action plan map during this weeks nato summit. At that time georgia was not ready for nato membership at all but georgia should have been given an action plan map.
In 2004 georgia became the first partner to develop an individual partnership action plan ipap with nato and undertook specific commitments in the frames of the action plan. Georgia declared its aspiration to nato membership for the first time at the 2002 prague summit and georgias integration process into the alliance began accordingly. The leaders of the 29 member alliance adopted a declaration at the end of the summit stating we reiterate the decision made at the 2008 bucharest nato summit that georgia will become a member.
Bosnia and herzegovina is the only country with a membership action plan which together with georgia were named nato aspirant countries at the north atlantic council meeting on 7 december 2011. Georgia and north atlantic treaty organization nato relations officially began in 1994 when georgia joined the nato run partnership for peacegeorgia has moved quickly following the rose revolution in 2003 to seek closer ties and eventual membership with nato. Ukraine was recognized as an aspirant country after the 2014 ukrainian revolution.