Georgia: Is Tbilisi Moving Toward NATO Membership?

By Liz Fuller (RadioFreeEurope)

PRAGUE, June 2, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- On May 11, the Georgian parliament passed a resolution expressing support for the country's aspirations to NATO membership. And three weeks later, on May 30, NATO's Parliamentary Assembly adopted a resolution noting Georgia's "significant progress" in implementing the goals set out in the Individual Partnership Action Plan endorsed in late 2004 and calling for the beginning of Intensive Dialogue -- the next stage in cooperation -- with Georgia. But Georgia's chances of joining NATO before President Mikheil Saakashvili's first presidential term expires in January 2009 are nonetheless slim, if not nonexistent.

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