Tbilisi says integration to Euro-Atlantic community among priorities
By Jamila Babayeva
The integration to the Euro-Atlantic community is one of the main priorities of the Georgian government.
State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alexi Petriashvili made the remark at the international conference "Path to the NATO: the experience of Central and Eastern Europe" held in Tbilisi.
"The integration course and aspiration to become a member of the EU and the NATO is the will of the overwhelming majority of the population and socio-political forces in the country," he noted.
Georgia initialed association agreement with the EU at the Vilnius summit dedicated to the European Union's 'Eastern Partnership' countries - ex-Soviet states on November 29, 2013. The signing of the Association Agreement is scheduled for August 2014.
Georgia is actively preparing for the NATO London summit on September 4-5, 2014 and intends to get a NATO Membership Action Plan.
NATO's Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, the members of Lithuanian and Estonian governments, the heads of the Georgian ministries of defense and foreign affairs, as well as ambassadors of the European member-countries of the NATO, former Bulgarian foreign minister Solomon Pasi attended the conference.
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