Saakashvili: Georgia Needs Clear Signal from NATO

“What we need to get is a clear political signal from NATO that we are on the way [to membership],” Reuters quoted President Saakashvili as saying at a news conference in Oslo on October 29.

“August might not have happened if not for this ambiguous message from Bucharest,” he said, referring to the NATO Bucharest summit decision in which the allies pledged that Georgia would become a member one day, but at the same time failed to offer a membership action plan.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said, according to Reuters, that it was too early to say when NATO would be able to decide on membership for Georgia, but said an “intensified dialogue” had begun and added that Georgia needed to carry out reforms before it could join.

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