NATO sec gen: allies providing support to Georgia, working closely with Georgian partners
“Allies have agreed to do more, especially in the light of Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine. It highlights the importance of proactively working with a country like Georgia”, Stoltenberg added. Photo:nato.int.
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NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said NATO allies were providing support to Georgia and “working closely” with their Georgian partners.
In his remarks at the Berlin Foreign Policy Forum, Stoltenberg noted the alliance needed to strengthen “political partnership, cooperation and dialogue” with those countries that are “vulnerable to Russian interference”, naming Georgia among them.
Russia is already controlling parts of Georgia’s territory. But it’s also about capacity building, training and different types of support. NATO allies provide support to Georgia and we are working closely with our Georgian partners”, he said.
“Allies have agreed to do more, especially in the light of Russia’s brutal attack on Ukraine. It highlights the importance of proactively working with a country like Georgia”, Stoltenberg added.
The leader of the bloc also underlined the importance of implementing “necessary reforms” by the Georgian government, pointing out the “more Georgia is able to address the concerns, [the] easier to mobilise necessary support from NATO allies”.
Irakli Beraia, the Chair of the Defence and Security Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Thursday said Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration was not only in the interests of the country, but also of the “Euro-Atlantic space as a whole”.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said the alliance would continue to “work closely” with partners like Georgia in what he called a “part of the message” of the bloc as the Russian invasion of Ukraine neared its first anniversary.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance’s allied states had agreed to “step up partnership” with partners like Georgia.
The reforms of the defence and security systems and the need of deepening NATO-Georgia cooperation were highlighted during a meeting on Friday between the representatives of the NATO partnerships and cooperative security committee and the Georgian defence officials, the Georgian defence ministry announced on Friday.
Irakli Beraia, the head of the defense and security committee of the Georgian parliament, on Friday met representatives of NATO partnerships and cooperative security committee. Photo: parliament press office
Nikoloz Khatiashvili, the foreign policy researcher and international secretary of the analytical centre Geocase participated last week in the Riga Conference and the Riga Conference Future Leaders' Forum, which covered the ongoing war in Ukraine, threats from Russia and current challenges, as well as the Black Sea security, hybrid threats and the future of the European security architecture, Geocase said in its release on Monday.
Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze on Wednesday attended a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels, discussing the situation created as a result of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and the country’s needs in combating the ongoing Russian offensives, as well as the security challenges facing the United States’s allies and partners.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance was working on “further strengthening” partnership and providing “more support” to Georgia after his meeting with Georgian Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze on Thursday.
Georgian Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze on Thursday held a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the framework of a NATO ministerial in Brussels, NATO said.
NATO values Georgia very much as its partner, Javier Colomina, the NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, said on Wednesday following his meetings with the Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and members of the Parliament’s Defence and Security Committee.