Tbilisi to Host North-Atlantic Alliance Council’s Session

Tbilisi hosts the session of NATO Council’s.
In two-day limit visit the Secretary General will meet the representatives of Georgian Government, as well as Opposition and NGO. Tomorrow on September 16 he will visit Gori, where he will see the damaged places and population who incurred losses due to the Russian aggression.
Today, on September 16, Jap de Hoop Scheffer will hold a briefing with Mikhail Saakashvili at the Avlabari Residence.
This will be the last arrangement of two-day visit. After this NATO Secretary General and the Ambassadors of 26 countries will leave Georgia.
The airplane of NATO Secretary General landed at Tbilisi international airport on September 15 at 14:20. The representatives and ambassadors of NATO member states arrived together with him. Jap de Hoop Scheffer moved to the hotel ‘Courtyard Marriot’, where the session was held. Scheffer made the preliminary speech at the session.
Jap de Hoop Scheffer and Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze held the joint press-conference.
NATO-Georgian frame-agreement was signed yesterday, on September 15. This agreement is considered to be the significant step for Georgia’s integration in NATO.

Mikhail Saakashvili NATO not to Protract Process of Georgian Integration in Euro-Atlantic Alliance

The agency Associated Press spreads an interview with the President Mikhail Saakashvili.
The speech referred mainly the process of Georgian integration in NATO. Saakashvili calls NATO not to protract this process, in another case Russian aggression will proceed to endless history. In the opinion of the President, NATO mustn’t show weakness.
‘In case, Georgia doesn’t become member of NATO, Russia will strengthen its control on Abkhazia and South Ossetia, what was the main target of Kremlin. In future, this will become the prescription of other similar intervention ‘, considers Mikhail Saakashvili.