Georgian PM: We will Double Efforts on the Way to NATO

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, who briefed the NATO North-Atlantic Council about the process of implementing Georgia?s Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) on November 28, said that despite some delays in this process, Georgia will move ahead with ?double efforts.?

?The door of NATO is open for us. This is the most important thing,? he said at a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Brussels.

?It is also very important to know that NATO aspirations of Georgia depends on Georgia, because it is a performance-based [process]. We, in most cases, have moved ahead of the schedule which is in the IPAP. There are some of the reforms where we are behind, but we will be moving ahead with double efforts,? PM Nogaideli added.

?[Our] homework will be done in time and we hope that we will be able to move ahead [towards] the MAP [NATO Membership Action Plan] as soon as the IPAP implementation is completed,? Nogaideli said.

?But the most important [thing] is to have this encouragement [from the NATO] and to have this international support for our NATO aspirations,? he added.

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