NATO adopts resolution to support Georgia and other partner countries
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NATO is calling on Russia to revoke its "Alliance and Strategic Partnership” treaty with Abkhazia, an occupied region of Georgia.
Steps taken by Russia towards the annexation of de facto Abkhazia posed a serious threat to European peace and security, NATO Parliamentary Assembly said in its November 24 resolution on ‘Reassurance and Support to Partners’.
The resolution "strongly deplored” Russia’s continuous "illegal occupation” and "unlawful recognition” of Georgian territories Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region (South Ossetia).
"[This is] a blatant violation of international law and run counter to the principles and commitments in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Basic Document, the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, the 12 August 2008 ceasefire accord, the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997, and the Rome Declaration,” the NATO resolution read.
The resolution urged NATO member governments and parliaments to assist Georgia and other partner countries, including Ukraine, to counter Russia’s military and economic tools of coercion, as well as its campaign of misinformation.
The document also encouraged NATO member states to support bilateral assistance from NATO to increase Georgia’s and Ukraine’s defence capabilities. Furthermore, the NATO document also supported Georgia and other aspirant countries on their path to NATO membership.
NATO is calling on Russia to reverse its recognition of two Georgian lands - Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region - as independent states and to withdraw its forces from Georgia.
The United States (US) says it will not recognise the legitimacy of any treaty between Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia region and the Russian Federation.
Russia’s signature of a so-called treaty on ‘Alliance and Strategic Partnership’ with Georgia's breakaway region Abkhazia is detrimental to ongoing efforts to stabilise the security situation in the region, the European Union (EU) says.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg takes Georgia as a NATO partner country and believes no third country can "veto” the partnership. He also states that opening a NATO training centre in Georgia was not a threat for anyone.
Georgia’s Foreign Minister Tamar Beruchashvili is preparing to participate in a NATO ministerial in Antalya, Turkey on May 13 and 14.
Turkey will initiate enlargement of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation at the next NATO Summit in Warsaw in 2016.