TBILISI, DFWatch–German Chancellor Angela Merkel says NATO will not offer Georgia a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the upcoming summit in Wales in September.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Monday met Merkel during a visit to Germany.
At a joint
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania asks NATO to install air defenses and other military systems in Georgia.
He made the call in a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, on Wednesday.
“Now the West has to seize the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania is to meet Chuck Hagel, US Secretary of Defense.
Alasania is on a working visit to the US and plans bilateral meetings at the Pentagon.
According to the Georgian Defense Ministry’s press office,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s speaker of parliament says his country could disappear from the world map if abandoned by NATO.
“If Georgia takes step towards NATO, this will cause another aggression from Russia,” Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili said Tuesday
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen does not rule out that the alliance might give Georgia a Membership Action Plan (MAP) at the summit in Wales in September.
At a press conference in Brussels yesterday, a journalist from Georgia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–As NATO foreign ministers met in Brussels and discussed the Ukraine crisis, the alliance’s secretary general underlined that it supports Georgia’s borders.
“At this time, it is more important than ever to stress that the breach of territorial
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is expecting a ‘beneficial decision’ from the NATO summit in Newport, Wales in September.
Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili said Monday that a statement made by US President Barack Obama last week was a lesson for him and other
TBILISI, DFWatch–US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that there has not been any immediate plans for expansion of NATO’s membership, referring to Ukraine and Georgia.
His statement caused protest and criticism among some in Georgia.
On Thursday,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian soldiers are participating in a two-week joint NATO-Ukraine military exercise in eastern Bulgaria, 400 km from Crimea.
The exercise, which started Friday. is called Saber Guardian and has been planned for about a year.
It involves 700
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parties in the 2008 war met again on Friday for a field meeting in a tent in Ergneti, a village on the border with South Ossetia.
These field meetings are formally called Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) and hosted by the EU’s