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NATO delay fuels conflicts

Failure by NATO to offer Georgia a membership plan at a summit next week would be seen as a victory in Russia and fuel separatist conflicts in the former Soviet state, Georgia's foreign minister said yesterday.

David Bakradze said before meeting NATO officials in Brussels he understood some NATO countries were skeptical about offering the Membership Action Plan at the April 2-4 summit in Bucharest but urged them to be firm with Moscow.