Sikorski’s bid for Russia to join NATO is turned down, by Moscow

3rd April 2009

Great powers don't join coalitions, they create coalitions. Russia considers itself a great power

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Poland has taken a step to ease tensions with Moscow with its Foreign Minister, Radek Sikorski, suggesting that Russia should become a NATO member.

Speaking at an academic conference in Poland, Mr Sikorski, who in the past has been a fierce critic of the Kremlin, said that the Europe needed Russian involvement.

“We need Russia for the resolution of European and global problems. That is why I think it would be good for Russia to join NATO," Mr Sikorski is quoted as saying by the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

“If we treat this principle seriously, we cannot by definition exclude a country from membership,” he continued. “We are interested in Russia's democratisation, in seeing it b ...

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