Magee, Kikaleyshvili. The new head of the Georgian Ministry of defense Mindia Dzhanelidze promised not to change the Course of the military strength of the country's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures and the rapprochement with NATO.

Ex-defense Minister Irakli Alasania was otronen the performance of their duties, the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili yesterday. On Wednesday, the head of government of the Ministry.

" The course of development of military power remains the same is the choice of the government and the Georgian people. He will focus on integration in evroatlanticheskie patterns. Will do everything to ensure that even more closer to NATO, " said Dzhanelidze at a press conference on Wednesday.

according to his statement, the defence Ministry will continue to collaborate with strategic partners country: USA and European countries.

during the NATO summit, which was held in Wales on 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 members of NATO - subject to compliance with the standards of the Commonwealth.

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