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GEORGIA'S NEIGHBORS WORRIED BY ITS GROWING COOPERATION WITH NATO
10:16, 11 December, 2014
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Georgia's neighbors are worried
by a growth of its military cooperation with NATO, Russian Deputy
Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told TASS on Wednesday.
"There's been much evidence of Georgia's building up partnership
and collaboration with the North-Atlantic pact over recent years and
the fact causes increasing concern in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,"
he said, Armenpress reports, citing ITAR TASS.
"A package of reinforced cooperation with Georgia was adopted at
NATO's summit in September," Karasin recalled. "It includes, among
other things, a buildup of assistance in defence technologies and a
training center in Georgia where the bloc's instructors will boost
the country's defence capability."
"Also, there's information on supplies to combat weaponry systems
to Tbilisi," he said. "That's why the concern of Georgia's neighbors
over security is quite understandable."
Karasin said Russia had reaffirmed its readiness to act as a guarantor
of agreements on security in the region.
"During the debate on the main objective of Geneva discussions,
which is to ensure durable security of Abkhazia ad South Ossetia,
representatives of the two republics spoke for speeding up work on an
agreement with Georgia on the non-use of force that would be binding,"
he said.
"It was stressed that on the face of Georgia's unabated drive to
joining NATO, the reinforced package of cooperation extended to it at
the summit in Wales, the plans to emplace NATO infrastructures on the
Georgian territory, and resumption of talks on the supplies of new
Western weaponry, the issues of security become particularly acute,"
Karasin said.
"The consultations are due to continue in March 2015," he said.
Karasin heads the Russian delegation at the Geneva discussions
on security and stability in South Caucasus. Another round of
consultations involving representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia,
the U.S., and the Republic of South Ossetia was held on Wednesday.
These consultations are held under the auspices of the UN, EU, and
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/787380/georgia%E2%80%99s-neighbors-worried-by-its-growing-cooperation-with-nato.html
From: A. Papazian
10:16, 11 December, 2014
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 11, ARMENPRESS: Georgia's neighbors are worried
by a growth of its military cooperation with NATO, Russian Deputy
Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told TASS on Wednesday.
"There's been much evidence of Georgia's building up partnership
and collaboration with the North-Atlantic pact over recent years and
the fact causes increasing concern in Abkhazia and South Ossetia,"
he said, Armenpress reports, citing ITAR TASS.
"A package of reinforced cooperation with Georgia was adopted at
NATO's summit in September," Karasin recalled. "It includes, among
other things, a buildup of assistance in defence technologies and a
training center in Georgia where the bloc's instructors will boost
the country's defence capability."
"Also, there's information on supplies to combat weaponry systems
to Tbilisi," he said. "That's why the concern of Georgia's neighbors
over security is quite understandable."
Karasin said Russia had reaffirmed its readiness to act as a guarantor
of agreements on security in the region.
"During the debate on the main objective of Geneva discussions,
which is to ensure durable security of Abkhazia ad South Ossetia,
representatives of the two republics spoke for speeding up work on an
agreement with Georgia on the non-use of force that would be binding,"
he said.
"It was stressed that on the face of Georgia's unabated drive to
joining NATO, the reinforced package of cooperation extended to it at
the summit in Wales, the plans to emplace NATO infrastructures on the
Georgian territory, and resumption of talks on the supplies of new
Western weaponry, the issues of security become particularly acute,"
Karasin said.
"The consultations are due to continue in March 2015," he said.
Karasin heads the Russian delegation at the Geneva discussions
on security and stability in South Caucasus. Another round of
consultations involving representatives of Abkhazia, Georgia, Russia,
the U.S., and the Republic of South Ossetia was held on Wednesday.
These consultations are held under the auspices of the UN, EU, and
the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/787380/georgia%E2%80%99s-neighbors-worried-by-its-growing-cooperation-with-nato.html
From: A. Papazian