Source: NATO In the current year may hold exercises in Georgia
Maria Kniazeva. The Alliance can make training centers in Georgia, told reporters on Tuesday, a source in NATO.
"The Alliance wants to open in Georgia, military training centers," he said. According to the plan, the centres will be extended to member States and partners in the Commonwealth.
This issue will be discussed at the next meeting of the Commission, the Georgia-NATO.
last week, Deputy Secretary General of NATO Alexander Vershbow, who visited Tbilisi in order to monitor the implementation of an existing package, the NATO-Georgia, expressed the hope that in common with Georgia training center will start functioning by the end of the current year.
during the NATO summit in Wales 4-5 September approved a package of measures that promote Georgia's bid for membership in the Alliance. Within the package provided by the opening in Georgia training center, which will host the training of the Soldiers of the Commonwealth and the partner countries of NATO. Georgia also received the special status of the partner and moved to the new advanced format military cooperation with the countries-parties to the North Atlantic Commonwealth.
Institutional cooperation between Georgia and NATO began in 1994, when Georgia became a member of the Partnership for peace (PfP - Parntnership for Peace). After the "rose revolution" in 2004 the cooperation between Georgia and NATO became more intense. In April 2008 in Bucharest at the conference of heads of NATO members, it was confirmed that Georgia and Ukraine in the future have the opportunity to become NATO members, subject to compliance with the standards of the Commonwealth.