Georgian MP: NATO representative Colomina supports Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity, Euro-Atlantic integration
Georgia has already been “acting as a responsible” member state of NATO and has proven not only its “desire but ability and very important experience” to contribute to the security of the Euro-Atlantic space, the committee head noted. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Irakli Beraia, the head of the defence and security committee of the Georgian parliament on Sunday said Javier Colomina, the NATO secretary general's special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, in his messages, had expressed support for Georgia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and Euro-Atlantic integration in a meeting held within the framework of the NATO parliamentary assembly in Madrid.
Photo: Parliament of Georgia
Georgia’s security challenges, including conventional and hybrid threats from Russia, and the country’s “significant” progress and its “ambitious” agenda on the path to Euro-Atlantic integration have been discussed in the meeting between the Georgian parliamentary delegation, headed by Beraia, and Colomina, the press service of the parliament said.
The Georgian side emphasised that they welcomed the new strategic concept of NATO, its records and the decisions of the Madrid summit, including the support measures tailored to Georgia, as well as the alliance's “adaptation to security challenges” and the strengthening of its military presence on the eastern flank.
It is necessary to implement the 2008 Bucharest summit decision, to accelerate Georgia's joining the alliance in so far as the full-fledged security of the Euro-Atlantic space is inconceivable without Georgia’s joining NATO”, Beraia said after the meeting.
Georgia has already been “acting as a responsible” member state of NATO and has proven not only its “desire but ability and very important experience” to contribute to the security of the Euro-Atlantic space, the committee head noted.
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— Irakli Beraia (@IrakliBeraiaMP) November 19, 2022
He added that against the background of increased threats and the European partners’ “endeavours” to diversify the energy supply resources and roads, Georgia’s “role and importance” to help “strengthen” the cooperation between Europe and Asia have increased and the need for Georgia to become a NATO member has enhanced.
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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.
The Georgian parliamentary delegation, led by the head of the defence and security committee Irakli Beraia, discussed regional and Georgian security challenges, as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine in bilateral meetings held within the framework of the ongoing NATO parliamentary assembly in Madrid.
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Monday said the alliance should “step up” cooperation with its partners in Moldova, Georgia and Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries.
NATO parliamentary assembly on Monday adopted the resolution urging member governments and parliaments of the alliance to “step up” support to “vulnerable partners” Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, and Moldova.
Irakli Beraia, the head of the Georgian parliament’s defence and security committee from the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said his country remained among the priorities of NATO and was “important” to the alliance.