GD Chair Says Georgia “Shouldn’t be Envious of Ukraine” Over NATO Prospects
Speaking to journalists in Parliament on June 11, the GD Chair Irakli Kobakhdize said that Georgia should not be “envious” that Ukraine can be accepted to NATO without a MAP [Membership Action Plan]. „Ukraine is in a state of war; Georgia is not. Therefore, a different approach is completely natural, “– he said, commenting on the expected removal of the MAP requirement for Ukraine at the ongoing NATO Summit in Vilnius.
“If the basis of differentiation [between those who can join NATO promptly and who cannot] is whether a country to at war, we cannot do anything about that. The only thing we could do was to join the war, our collective opposition – the “National Movement,” the Ukrainian government, and a number of foreign experts and politicians – demanded. But we wouldn’t do that,”- said Kobakhidze, rehashing the conspiracy theory according to which the unnamed foreign forces tried to “drag Georgia into war” with Russia, but the Georgian Dream resisted.
Turning the tables on NATO, Kobakhidze recalled that in 2008 or at the subsequent NATO summits, the alliance did not grant MAP to Georgia even though the country went to war with Russia.
He said: “Georgia went through a war with Russia, but then there was no such attitude towards Georgia. It is good that today there is such an attitude toward Ukraine and that special attention is being paid to this country. Of course, we should not and will not envy this,” he said.
The opposition criticized the Georgian Dream and its administration for not doing enough to further relationships with the Alliance at the Vilnius Summit.
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