Baku – NATO will continue cooperation with Georgia and Ukraine for joining the alliance, NATO Deputy General Secretary Claudio Bisogniero said at a briefing in Baku on Tuesday.
“NATO’s position on that issue (the membership of Ukraine and Georgia) is very strict and was approved by all member states at the NATO summit in Bucharest, at which it was decided that in the future, these two countries are to become members of the alliance,” he said.
“But this requires that Georgia and Ukraine do definite work,” Bisogniero said.
He said that the alliance is to continue cooperation with both countries on holding reforms within the framework of their bilateral commissions.
Concerning the issue on granting Azerbaijan and Georgia security guarantees from NATO after the recent events in Southern Ossetia, Bisogniero said, that “the security [guarantees] provided by NATO, and the cooperation of the alliance with Ukraine and Georgia, which are striving to become its members, should be separate issues.”
