Friday, December 5, 2025

Georgian soldiers to remain in Afghanistan after 2014

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Georgia’s Minister of Defense Irakli Alasania (left) and NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The NATO-Georgia commission held a session in Brussels on Wednesday as part of a meeting of ministers from member states.

The Alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen opened the session by reiterating the importance of Georgia’s

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Ivanishvili expects NATO membership plan next year

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Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili (right), expects NATO to commit to making Georgia a member through a Membership Action Plan in 2014. On the left, Switzerland’s Ambassador to Georgia, Guenther Baechler. (Official Photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The new government expects Georgia to receive a membership action plan (MAP) next year.

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said this Tuesday at the 22. anniversary of the Georgian army.

The head of government has often had to defend himself against

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Ivanishvili optimistic about NATO membership prospects

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (center) attending NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Rose Roth Seminar in Tbilisi. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–‘A magical recipe for Georgia’s NATO integration without offending Russia is Georgia becoming an interesting country,’ says Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

He said this Monday as he attended the 83rd Rose Roth Seminar of NATO’s

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Georgia to have constitution define NATO and EU wish

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Manana Kobakhidze, Vice Speaker of Parliament. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The governing coalition in Georgia accepts a demand made by President Saakashvili’s National Movement party to write the country’s foreign policy course into the constitution.

This means that Georgia’s aspirations to become a member of NATO

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Wants guarantees for Georgia's western course

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Giorgi Baramidze, spokesperson for the National Movement party. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party wants to tie Georgia to the mast in terms of the course of its foreign policy.

Spokesperson Giorgi Baramidze Wednesday presented a draft bill that will write into legislation what the

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Saakashvili says Georgia must choose between Russia and NATO

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President Mikheil Saakashvili criticized the new Georgian government of trying to combine the impossible: Good relations with Russia and NATO at the same time. (CoE photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili criticized his own prime minister for saying that Georgia should have good relations with both Russia and NATO.

In a speech to the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (CoE) Monday, the president criticized his

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Anti-NATO demonstration in Georgia quashed

A counter-demonstration to show support for Georgia's western aspirations drove away a small group advocating to cancel the application for NATO membership. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — An attempt at demonstrating against Georgian NATO membership was Sunday quashed by a counter-demonstration.

The two rallies took place on Pushkin Square in the center of Tbilisi and started with a call the same day to support friendship with Russia,

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