Georgia’s NATO ambassador: Bucharest ministerial messages that Ukraine, Georgia will join bloc “symbolic”
Dolidze said Georgia welcomed the accession of Finland and Sweden to the organisation, adding the alliance’s open door policy would also affect Georgia in what he called an “irreversible process”. Photo: 1tv.ge
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Victor Dolidze, the head of the Georgian mission to NATO, on Wednesday said it was “symbolic” the alliance’s ministerial in Bucharest this week “once again” stressed Georgia and Ukraine would “definitely” join the bloc, 14 years after the pledge was first made at a NATO summit in the city.
Dolidze said Georgia welcomed the accession of Finland and Sweden to the organisation, adding the alliance’s open door policy would also affect Georgia in what he called an “irreversible process”.
A significant part of the ministerial declaration is devoted to building our defence capabilities, strengthening and increasing interoperability with NATO, and that the country, which is constantly under risk, under threat from Russia, needs more help and support to maintain peace, stability, and at the same time to develop”, Dolidze said.
In a joint statement issued on Tuesday, NATO foreign ministers reaffirmed their 2008 Bucharest summit pledge, and "all subsequent" decisions, that Georgia and Ukraine would become members.
The statement said the FMs “firmly” stood behind their commitment to the alliance’s open door policy and welcomed meetings with counterparts from partner states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia and Moldova.