Reports: NATO to Offer Intensified Dialogue to Georgia

NATO has decided to open an Intensified Dialogue with Georgia, an alliance source told Reuters on September 18.
 
An Intensified Dialogue (ID) with NATO is viewed as a precursor to being invited to enter the alliance Membership Action Plan (MAP). Becoming a MAP-country should eventually lead to full NATO membership.

A final decision is expected to be made at the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in New York on September 21.

“We made it clear [to Georgia] that with this step comes greater responsibility. It mustn’t ruin everything with a crisis now,” an alliance source who declined to be identified told Reuters.

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