President of NATO Parliamentary Assembly visits Georgia: ‘cooperation with Georgia is of top importance’
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon started official meetings in Tbilisi earlier today. Photo: parliament speaker’s press office.
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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.
Moon said that being a democratic country is a continuous process and any state which strives for high standards and democracy should never stop advancement and the respect of democratic institutions.
#NATOPA President @MadeleineMoon on a 2-days visit to Tbilisi ????????. During her visit, President Moon will meet with President of Georgia @Zourabichvili_S, Speaker of Parliament Archil Talakvadze, and Minister of Defense @GharibashviliGe. Official programme > https://t.co/ErPi5lymI6 pic.twitter.com/zRw1UsfBTU
— NATO Parliamentary Assembly (@natopapress) September 12, 2019
She said that Russian propaganda is a real threat and not only in Georgia, but also in many other countries.
The government can do much against propaganda. However, each citizen should also do their job against it,” Moon stated after her meeting with Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze.
Moon stated that NATO’s position towards Georgia “has always been very clear.”
We recognise Georgia’s territorial integrity and support the country’s intention to reintegrate its [Russian- occupied] territories,” Moon stated.
Moon has held her first meeting with Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze. Photo: Talakvadze's press office.
Talakvadze said that the country’s integration into NATO and the EU is a choice of the Georgian people and the key goal of the current Georgian Dream leadership.
We have taken genuine steps for this and we will continue doing our utmost to achieve these final goals,” Talakvadze said.
He stated that Moon’s visit to Georgia reaffirms that the country is high on the NATO agenda.
“We have stepped up support for our close partners, Georgia and Ukraine, sovereign nations with the sovereign right to choose their own path”, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated during the joint meeting of the United States Congress in Washington on Wednesday.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hopes Georgia can soon be welcomed into NATO, and praises the progress achieved by the country. He also urges Russia to withdraw its forces from Georgian territories.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance may have changed many times, but it has maintained its key value - the commitment of its member nations to protect and defend one another.
Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen says that it is time Georgia start discussions on whether or not to join the alliance with its 5th article on collective defence covering only the Tbilisi-administered territory.
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.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze paid an official visit to Montenegro on October 8-10. During the visit Talakvadze held meetings with Montenegrin President Milo Dukanovic, Parliament Speaker Ivan Brajović and other high-ranking officials.
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.
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 to the assembly later today.
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.
The NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Center has received 15 brand new vehicles through the NATO Defence Capacity Building Trust Fund, with contributions from NATO Allies Norway, United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, Denmark, Italy, Portugal and Lithuania.