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Georgia 'will join NATO': Merkel
AFP
Monday, Aug 18, 2008
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday assured Georgia would
join NATO as she strongly backed the ex-Soviet republic's President
Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia.
"Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to --
and it does want to," she told reporters before talks with
Saakashvili in Tbilisi.
It was one of the strongest statements yet of support for Georgia's
NATO membership bid, which is fiercely opposed by Russia.
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"We are on a clear road towards NATO membership (for Georgia),"
she added at a later news conference.
On August 12, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung had said
the conflict in the Caucusus had changed nothing with regard to
Georgia's chances of joining the NATO military alliance.
At the last NATO summit in Bucharest in April, leaders agreed
that Georgia and Ukraine should join the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization eventually, but neither nation was given candidate
status and no timetables were set.
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