Georgian Parliament Speaker Visits NATO HQ

Parliament speaker Davit Usupashvili, July 17, 2015

Georgian parliament speaker Davit Usupashvili will address diplomats from the NATO member states in Brussels in frames of the NATO-Georgia Commission on July 22.

During his visit to the NATO headquarters, Usupashvili will also meet NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow.

“We will talk about all those issues that represent area of our interest in respect of NATO – what we are interested in is speeding up of our integration into NATO and strengthening of our very specific defense capabilities from the political point of view and from other point of views,” Usupashvili told journalists in Tbilisi on July 20

He also said that he views this visit “to some extent as a follow up” of his address to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly session in Budapest in May 2015.

In that address Usupashvili said that Georgia is now as ready for NATO membership as some of its members were at the time they were invited and NATO should either give Georgia a Membership Action Plan (MAP) during the next NATO summit in Warsaw in 2016 or declare that MAP is no longer a precursor to eventual full membership.

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