Georgian Foreign Minister invited to NATO ministerial
Between April 6-7, the ministerial will gather ministers of Australia, Finland, Georgia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Sweden and Ukraine. Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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David Zalkaliani, the Georgian Foreign Minister, has been invited to the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member and allied states, with the event launching next week in Brussels.
Between April 6-7, the ministerial will gather ministers of Australia, Finland, Georgia, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Sweden and Ukraine.
Beside the national officials, it will also involve the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
The first day of the two-day ministerial will involve the gathered ministers in a working lunch, with the North Atlantic Council holding two sessions on the subsequent day. The in-person meeting will be chaired by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
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Georgian Defence MInister Irakli Garibashvili will attend the meetings of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of Defence Ministers at the NATO Headquarters, which is held in Brussels on October 24-25. He will also meet with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, as well as his counterparts from Finland, Poland, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
NATO “greatly values” its long-standing cooperation with Georgia, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana tweeted on Tuesday following his meeting with the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili.
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Georgia is a “strong supporter” of Ukraine in all international formats, Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said on Wednesday in a briefing with Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Zbigniew Rau, the Chairman-in-Office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe and Poland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, has extended his gratitude to Georgian authorities and citizens for their support for Ukraine, noting the OSCE commended the country’s “unconditional” support for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg summarized the aspects of partnership between Georgia and the Alliance in his annual report for 2021 on Thursday.
Stoltenberg wrote NATO’s door for membership remained open “to all European democracies that share the values of the Alliance,” while the Allies committed to support the eventual membership of Georgia and Ukraine.
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