NATO-Georgia Substantial Package to be signed in February 2015
TBILISI. Dec 4 (Interfax) - A final approval of the Substantial Package for Georgia offered by the NATO summit in Wales will take place at the NATO headquarters in February 2015, Georgian Defense Minister Mindia Janelidze said.
"A plan of the implementation of this package is likely to gain final approval at a meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission in February of next year," the minister said after his meeting with visiting Special Envoy of the NATO Secretary General James Appathurai in Tbilisi on Thursday.
In turn, Appathurai told reporters NATO welcomed the fact that the Georgian Defense Ministry's policy had not changed after the replacement of its head in November 2014.
He promised journalists that they would soon see more of NATO in Georgia and more of Georgia in NATO.
The Georgian Defense Ministry said earlier that the Substantial Package included a number of projects to be implemented in Georgia, among them the opening of a joint training center to coach servicemen of Georgia, alliance member countries and partners.
The ministry repeatedly emphasized that the center would not be a NATO military base in Georgia.
