Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 22
Trend:
NATO will continue cooperation with Georgia, Alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on the results of the meeting with the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili told reporters in Davos, TASS reported.
Stoltenberg noted that it was the first meeting with Giorgi Kvirikashvili after his approval to the Prime Minister post (December 29, 2015).
"Although we were acquainted with him when he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs," he added.
He said that issues related to the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw (June 2016), as well as scheduled for February (in Brussels) ministerial meeting of the defense ministers and the meetings of the NATO-Georgia Commission were discussed at the meeting with Kvirikashvili.
During the meeting with Stoltenberg, issues on the country's integration into NATO and the continuation of reforms were discussed, according to the Georgia's delegation members in Davos.
Georgia actively cooperates with NATO since the late 1990s. In November 2002, President Eduard Shevardnadze has officially declared at the NATO summit in Prague that Georgia wants to become a member of the Alliance.
The new government that came to power after the victory of the "Georgian Dream" coalition in the parliamentary elections in Oct. 2012, stated that Tbilisi will continue the course of integration into NATO.