NATO PA president recalls “emotional visit” in Georgia, vows to speak about Georgia in speech
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon visited Georgia in mid-September. Photo: NATO PA.
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President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon says that her recent visit to Georgia made a “big impact on her” and she intends to speak about the country and its problem of occupation during her speech at the assembly later today.
Georgia has made a special impact on me. It was very real and powerful emotion. This always happens when we see reality and the lives of specific people. Especially an elderly man trapped beyond the barbed-wire-fence who is taking care of his [ill] wife,” Moon told the Georgian Public Broadcaster.
The 65th Plenary Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly was opened in London on October 12.
Moon met with Georgian legislators yesterday on the sidelines of the assembly.
She visited Georgia on September 12, met with top Georgian officials and visited the occupation line in the village of Khurvaleti.
Georgian legislators met with the President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Madeleine Moon on the sidelines of the 65th NATO PA annual session in London.
88-year-old Georgian man Data Vanishvili, whose house and agricultural lands are divided in two by occupying forces, has asked advice from NATO PA President Madeleine Moon, who has visited the occupation line in the village of Khurvaleti earlier today.
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Madeleine Moon, who is on an official visit to Georgia, met with the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia earlier today. At the meeting Gakharia and Moon spoke of NATO-Georgia cooperation and the progress that Georgia has made on its path to NATO integration.
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon, who is on official visit to Georgia, says that cooperation with Georgia is of high importance for the assembly she chairs. She vowed to broadly speak about Georgia’s progress towards NATO during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in October.
NATO PA President Madeleine Moon has dedicated a significant part of her speech to Georgian citizen Data Vanishvili, whose home and lands are divided into two by occupation forces in the village of Khurvaleti, eastern Georgia.
Acting President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) Attila Mesterhazy said the assembly “has recognised Georgia’s aspiration to join NATO and supports it on its path, particularly through close dialogue and active cooperation" with the Parliament of Georgia.