NATO-Georgia Commission at Defense Ministers Level Planned

Georgian Defense Minister, Bacho Akhalaia, will visit Brussels to take part in NATO-Georgia Commission meeting planned on a sideline of NATO defense ministers meeting on June 11. 

“I have no doubt, he [the Georgian Defense Minister] will hear from all ministers, that NATO’s door is still open to Georgia, firm commitment to Georgia’s territorial integrity and our determination to carry forward our cooperation and our partnership,” NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said at a news conference in Brussels on June 7.

“Georgia still has a lot of reform to make and NATO will continue to help,” he added.
 
Rasmussen also said that NATO closely followed the May 30 local elections and during his meetings with the Georgian officials he had made it clear that “successful local elections were essential for progress in cooperation within the NATO-Georgia Commission.”

“So I am pleased to see that local elections have been conducted successfully and of course it is a very positive step. I also have to say that I had expected successful local elections, because I take it for granted that political leadership will do its utmost to carry through reforms of democratic system in Georgia; so far so good. It will be noted with satisfaction in our meeting with the Georgian Defense Minister,” the NATO Secretary General said.

NATO-Ukraine Commission is also planned on the sideline of the defense ministers’ summit on the same day in Brussels.

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