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Parliament: Georgia will finally become NATO member

2 December 2008, 11:37 | Interfax-Ukraine
Parliament: Georgia will finally become NATO member
Tbilisi, Dec. 2 (Interfax) - Any of the patterns of Georgia's integration with NATO, proposed by the Alliance's member-states, is acceptable for Georgia, Georgian parliamentary speaker David Bakradze said.

"Georgia's integration with NATO could proceed along two lines," Bakradze said to journalists on Tuesday.

The first one, proposed by the United States and Britain, envisions the country's integration with NATO without getting the Membership Action Plan (MAP). But MAP is mandatory in the plan proposed by Germany, he said.

"Most of our allies support the British plan of Georgia's accession to NATO," he also said.

"What matters most to Georgia is not the mechanism to be used in the accession, but that Georgia will finally become a NATO member by all means, something even skeptical-minded countries say," he noted.

NATO spokesman James Appathurai, however, said to Imedi television station in Brussels on Tuesday, that it would be premature to speculate on what decision the foreign ministers would make, although, importantly, NATO remains adherent to the resolution of the Bucharest summit that the doors of the Alliance remain open to Georgia.

NATO's foreign ministers are expected to begin discussing prospects of Georgia and Ukraine's integration with the Alliance in a few hours in Brussels.

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DavEd  (Guest) | 02.12.2008, 11:59
Some sort of protection for Georgia is an absolute must if the Nabucco pipeline project is ever to get
started.
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Stealthy  (Guest) | 02.12.2008, 12:42
who cares ? Nabucco project is not in the interests of Ukraine ... in case of current president resign I do not think Ukraine will maintain close relations with Georgia ...
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