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According to Czaja, admitting Poland's ex-Soviet neighbour Ukraine is as much about building a defensive bulwark for Poland and the rest of NATO as about anchoring Kiev in the West.

For Poland's conservative President Lech Kaczynski, admitting Ukraine, as well as Georgia, "should be the alliance's principal goal over coming years".
Kaczynski's predecessor Aleksander Kwasniewski -- a communist-turned-social democrat who was in power when Poland joined -- said he agreed.

"Bringing Ukraine in NATO would provide much more security for Poland than setting up an American missile shield on our soil," Kwasniewski said, referring to controversial US plan to site anti-missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic to ward of threats of attack by what Washington called "rogue states", notably Iran.