BALTIC AND GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS GEORGIA’S READINESS TO JOIN NATO
Created 2012-04-19
On 19 April during the informal meeting of NATO Foreign and Defence Ministers in Brussels, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Ažubalis met with his counterparts from the Baltic States and Georgia to discuss readiness of this South Caucasus country to join the Alliance and agenda for the forthcoming NATO Summit in Chicago.
“Lithuania has always supported and will continue to actively support Georgia’s ambition to become a full-fledged member of NATO. We see and appreciate that Georgia is actively contributing to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. Therefore, it is very important that we and our Latvian and Estonian counterparts should use every opportunity to meet and identify practical solutions to realize Georgia’s transatlantic ambition as soon as possible,” Ažubalis said.A meeting of the Group of Friends of Georgia at the level of political directors was also organized at the Permanent Delegation of Lithuania to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the margins of the Ministers’ meeting.
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