NATO is suffering enlargement fatigue, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview for the British Daily Telegraph.

Sikorski, who is a leading contender to become NATO's secretary-general when the Alliance selects a new chief in April, told the publication, that EU membership for both Georgia and the Ukraine was a "fairly distant prospect".

"At the moment, there's a will to encourage them to reform themselves. But I believe all of our institutions, both the EU and NATO, suffer from enlargement fatigue. It's always harder to enlarge in a recession," the Polish Foreign minister is quoted as saying.

Sikorski did, however, reject the idea that the current lack of will by the EU and NATO to admit the two countries could be seen as a victory for Russia, adding that Russia had not increased in any way its credibility in the last six months.

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