Georgia Denies Intentions to Deploy Foreign Military Bases

Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said in the interview with Russian newspaper Vremia Novostei on April 9 that Georgia does not intend to deploy any foreign military bases on its territory.
 
“We will preserve our principles: the country”s sovereignty implies absence of foreign militaries on its territory. Georgia is not interested in having Russian or any foreign military bases on its territory,” Salome Zurabishvili said.
 
Commenting on Georgia”s aspiration to join NATO, the minister said “Georgia”s integration to NATO is a political decision, one of the priorities along with normalization of relations with Russia and integration into Europe. But this does not mean that we will deploy any foreign base here.”

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