'Georgia will join NATO with Abkhazia and South Ossetia'

De-occupation of Georgia and integration into Euro-Atlantic organization is a parallel process, and Georgia will join the NATO with its all territories, Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia Batu Kutelia said.

This statement was a response to a German expert's assumption, which was expressed during the first strategic Georgian-German Forum.

The expert of the German Society for Foreign Policy, political scientist Stefan Meister said that Georgia will not join NATO until it has territorial disputes. "The main problem in Georgia's NATO membership is territorial conflicts. NATO will not have a new member that has such problems. Georgia will not become a member of the Euro-Atlantic organization until it solves the territorial problem. Many other reasons can be also called, but the main problem is this. The question is whether Georgia will accept this reality. I think it will not, because the integration of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is important for Georgia," Meister said.

"The process of de-occupation of Georgia and integration into Euro-Atlantic organization are parallel. Process of successful Euro-Atlantic integration is very important for de-occupation policy to be carried out more efficiently," Kutelia said.


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