NATO Secretary General: NATO doors are open
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"The doors to NATO are open, and the best proof of this is that since the end of the Cold War to the present day, the number of NATO members has nearly doubled”, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
Stoltenbergat is attending the Halifax International Security Forum (HISF) in Canada.
In the end, the decision to accept or reject new members will be taken by 29 NATO member countries, no one else has the right to intervene and veto this process”, he said.
Each sovereign country has the right to determine its own way and NATO will decide whether we will expand or not”, Stoltenberg added.
According to Kyiv Post, Stoltenberg said that NATO, Canada, other allies are helping both Ukraine and Georgia with the implementation of reforms.
Stoltenberg said to become a full-fledged member of NATO, the country should meet certain standards, while Georgia and Ukraine are now focused on reforms, on modernizing defense institutions, fighting corruption and strengthening democratic institutions.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria summarised yesterday’s NATO-Georgia Commission meeting as "very successful”.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has condemned Russia's opinion of NATO's multi-national military training; he says what NATO does is "defensive” and consequently, the NATO-Georgia joint military exercises pose no threat to anyone.
“Bonds between NATO and Georgia are stronger than ever”
This afternoon NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met Margvelashvili at the President’s residence in the heart of capital Tbilisi, where he said "the bonds between NATO and Georgia are stronger than ever”.
Head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg has met Georgia’s Parliament Speaker and local lawmakers within the North Atlantic Council (NAC) visit to Georgia on September 7-8.
General Petr Pavel, chairman of the NATO Military Committee, opened the 178th Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence Session in Brussels today and stated that the alliance will meet Georgian and Ukrainian representatives tomorrow.
Representatives of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia have briefed NATO members over Georgia’s military progress and reforms, as well as about the current security situation and threats in Georgia and the wider region.
Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze met with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and attended the NATO-Georgia Commission meeting in Brussels, Belgium.Minister Janelidze thanked Stoltenberg for NATO’s support towards Georgia and hoped that the positive dynamics of NATO-Georgia cooperation will be further preserved.