PM Calls for Intensified Efforts to Join NATO

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on February 14 that the government should work ?very intensively? to meet the reform targets of Georgia?s Intensified Dialogue with NATO in order to move to a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).

?The date for next stage of NATO expansion has been announced ? this is 2009. Hence, we should work actively to implement the plans that we have defined for NATO integration,? PM Nogaideli said at the government?s session.

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on February 10 that the alliance should come ?closer to honoring the ambitions of Ukraine and Georgia? by 2009. 
 
President Saakashvili described these remarks as an announcement of a date for Georgia?s accession to the North Atlantic alliance.

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