Georgia’s NATO mission Head: Madrid Summit “successful” for Georgia
He also emphasised strengthening Georgia’s defence capabilities and resilience and its ability to deal with global threats remained “important” for members of alliance, and noted the “main goal” of the country was “full membership”.Photo: Dolidze's twitter.
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The NATO Summit in Madrid was “successful” for Georgia, with another “very important step” forward taken in the country's European and Euro-Atlantic integration, Victor Dolidze, the Head of the Georgian mission to NATO, said on Thursday.
"We are satisfied with what we have set, and we have worked in this direction in recent years - the result has been achieved", Dolidze said during his assessment of the Summit, adding “all documents” adopted at the Summit “unequivocally” stated the alliance’s “open door policy” was maintained, including with regard to Georgia.
He also emphasised strengthening Georgia’s defence capabilities and resilience and its ability to deal with global threats remained “important” for members of alliance, and noted the “main goal” of the country was “full membership”.
The Summit on Wednesday decided to “step up tailored political and practical support” to partners including Georgia. Heads of member states also reaffirmed the decision taken at the 2008 Bucharest Summit that Georgia and Ukraine would become members of the alliance.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday said his Government stood ready to work closely with the transatlantic community to “safeguard peace, stability and promote shared values”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Wednesday thanked the Government of the United Kingdom for allocating an additional £5 million funding for a new phase of the UK-Georgia programme to strengthen the country's resistance to Russian cyber attacks.
The decision of the European Council to grant Georgia the European perspective and the security challenges in the Black Sea region were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Emmanuel Macron, the President of France.
New measures to step up “tailored political and practical support” to partners including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Moldova will be ensured by NATO following a declaration on the matter at the ongoing Summit of the alliance on Wednesday.
French Ambassador to Georgia Diego Colas on Thursday said Georgia was considered a “strategic country” in the Black Sea region.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry on Thursday welcomed the approval of a set of “tailored support” measures for the country by the NATO Summit, with the support involving “concrete steps” to further enhance the country's defence capabilities and achieve NATO’s more effective engagement in this process.
The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili on Thursday said the ongoing NATO Summit had sent “another signal” in support for the bloc’s open door policy, and called the adoption of a “tailored” assistance programme for Georgia a “really important” step.
Bilateral and multilateral political relations involving Georgia and Slovenia, and the process of Georgia's integration into the European Union were discussed between Ilia Darchiashvili, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and his Slovenian counterpart Tanja Fajon on Thursday at the ongoing NATO Summit.