Does Georgia agree to NATO without Abkhazia and South Ossetia?Georgy Kalatozishvili, exclusively for Vestnik KavkazaThe foreign ministers of France and Germany, Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, have visited Tbilisi. During a joint press conference with the participation of the Georgian Foreign Minister, Maya Panjikidze, they raised a number of key points: Georgia will sign an association agreement with the EU at the end of June, but will not receive a roadmap to join the alliance at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales.Laurent Fabius said that the accession of Georgia to NATO is not being discussed.These conditions do not satisfy the Georgian authorities. It is for this reason that Panjikidze reminded her foreign counterparts about the decision of the Bucharest summit to make Georgia part of NATO some day and its unprecedented activity in Afghanistan, where Tbilisi sent 1700 soldiers and officers, as well as the decision of the Georgian authorities to send hundreds of soldiers to the Central African Republic troops to participate in the peacekeeping operations of the EU.In Georgia politicians believe that the main reason for the lack of desire among the Euro-Atlantic states to make Georgia part of their alliance lies in their reluctance to get involved in the resolution of the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia as long as Moscow recognizes their independence.Georgy Kalatozishvili, exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
The foreign ministers of France and Germany, Laurent Fabius and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, have visited Tbilisi. During a joint press conference with the participation of the Georgian Foreign Minister, Maya Panjikidze, they raised a number of key points: Georgia will sign an association agreement with the EU at the end of June, but will not receive a roadmap to join the alliance at the upcoming NATO summit in Wales.
Laurent Fabius said that the accession of Georgia to NATO is not being discussed.
These conditions do not satisfy the Georgian authorities. It is for this reason that Panjikidze reminded her foreign counterparts about the decision of the Bucharest summit to make Georgia part of NATO some day and its unprecedented activity in Afghanistan, where Tbilisi sent 1700 soldiers and officers, as well as the decision of the Georgian authorities to send hundreds of soldiers to the Central African Republic troops to participate in the peacekeeping operations of the EU.
In Georgia politicians believe that the main reason for the lack of desire among the Euro-Atlantic states to make Georgia part of their alliance lies in their reluctance to get involved in the resolution of the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia as long as Moscow recognizes their independence.
