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When Croats and Albanians have signed up the protocols of joining NATO in Brussels, for some reasons I have remembered how during our visits to NATO office in 2001, me and my colleague were quite aggressive to different alliance representatives asking: “Why Albania has already proceeding with MAP, yet Ukraine hasn’t even been allowed to start the Intensive dialogue?”. Albania for us was equally described as the end of the world and none of us was even able to imagine that when Albania will be asked to join NATO, Ukraine will still remain on the Intensive dialogue stage. As such, MAP will be something like a foreign policy victory and the first attempt to get it will be a fail. The article is available in Ukrainian only