The speaker of the Shalva Papuashvili parliament said that Georgia was completely ready to join NATO, but was beating into the “glass door”, reports news. This is stated in the open letter of the chairman of the Georgian parliament, widespread on the eve of the alliance summit in Vilnius.
“The political and military cooperation of Tbilisi and NATO has increased significantly. Georgia received significant assistance from the alliance. However, there is not much that the alliance has changed in the critical issue of Georgian membership,” he stated.
Papuashvili recalled that over the past decade, Georgia radically changed its democratic institutions, abandoned the authoritarian management system, increased defense capabilities to NATO standards.
at the NATO from the summit to the summit “only repeat their promise about membership,” he believes.
“Unfortunately, some Eastern European countries, which once acted as ardent supporters of our country’s membership in NATO and the EU, have turned into skeptics today, only because their political partner is in the opposition, and not in power in Georgia …. This historical intersection of Georgia from NATO due to various political tastes is a mistake that the future will not forgive. Georgian membership in NATO should be higher than party policy, ”Papuashvili is sure.