Georgian President meets NATO Secretary General
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered a warm welcome to Georgia's President Giorgi Margvelashvili at a face-to-face meeting at NATO’s 28th Warsaw Summit today for talks on the Alliance’s further partnership with Georgia.
The meeting was not followed by any official comments but President Margvelashvili’s press office said "the sides discussed the next practical steps to strengthen Georgia’s defence capability”.
Georgia's President also published a message about this meeting on his official Twitter account:
Meeting W/ General Secretary @jensstoltenberg.We are thankful for his support of Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations pic.twitter.com/TUSkp6TQyt
— President Of Georgia (@MargvelashviliG) 8 July 2016
The NATO top official in his opening speech at the Warsaw Summit Experts' Forum earlier today underlined the Alliance's support for Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
We will also affirm our commitment to our partners in the east – to Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova – to help them resist outside pressures and to advance reforms,” said Stoltenberg.
President Margvelashvili, who is leading Georgia’s delegation at the NATO Warsaw Summit, told media today that prior to the Summit Georgia's Parliament adopted a declaration about Georgia’s intentions to join the Alliance, and the document was signed by the Parliamentary majority and the opposition.
Later today a meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission at the level of Foreign Ministers will be held at the Summit, followed by a press conference of the NATO Secretary General.
At the Wales Summit in 2014 Georgia was granted a Substantial Package, which was a set of tools and action to boost Georgia’s self-defence capabilities and enhance Georgia’s ties with the Alliance.
Georgia’s top officials said after this year’s Summit in Warsaw Georgia will become "more secured".
Thousands of official from more than 50 official delegations are participating in the Summit. This includes all 28 NATO allies, Montenegro, whose accession to NATO is currently in the ratification process, 26 partner countries and representatives from the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Georgia's President Giorgi Margvelashvili has today announced almost all of the country’s leading political parties unanimous support Georgia's "irreversible" efforts to join NATO.
A Georgian delegation led by President Giorgi Margvelashvili is on its way to Poland to participate in the 28th North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Summit, which is scheduled to take place over the next two days.
Allies vow more support for Georgia
This evening the first North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-Georgia Commission meeting was held during the Alliance’s Warsaw Summit, where allied foreign ministers recognised Georgia’s vast progress towards Euro-Atlantic integration and promised more support to boost the country’s self-defence capabilities.
In two separate phone conversations Kvirikashvili talked to chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations Bob Corker and co-chair of the same Committee Ben Cardin.
Georgia will continue to participate in a NATO mission in Afghanistan, as the Alliance has decided to extend its Resolute Support Mission beyond 2016.
NATO: "We welcome the significant progress realised since 2008. Georgia’s relationship with the Alliance contains all the practical tools to prepare for eventual membership."
President of the United States Barack Obama says NATO will do more to help Georgia strengthen its defence capacity. Obama spoke at a press conference after day one of the NATO Warsaw Summit.