The final nail into the grave of the Georgian «Rose Revolution» was driven by the statement of Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried. "NATO member-states recognize that Georgia and Ukraine have a lot of work to do to meet NATO's standards and requirements, and they acknowledge it themselves. They have different challenges. These are different countries. But they have a lot of work. There was never ever a discussion of actually extending to either Georgia or Ukraine an invitation to join NATO. This is, by all accounts, some time away, matter of years, and the Georgians and the Ukrainians acknowledge this," Fried said.