NATO Summit communiqué omits Georgia membership for first time since 2008 - MEP
Photo: For the first time since 2008, the NATO summit communiqué did not mention Georgia's accession (Getty Images)
The declaration of the July 9-11 NATO summit in Washington, D.C., did not mention Georgia's intention to join the Alliance. This was the first time since 2008, according to the European Parliament member Petras Auštrevičius.
"First time since 2008 the reference to Georgia’s intention to join NATO went missing. It coincides with country’s ruling party promise to defeat 'liberal fasism'," he wrote on his X.
He called on the Georgian leadership "to correct its compas otherwise even the European path will be missed".
What happened before
On May 28, the Georgian parliament overrode President Salome Zurabishvili's veto of the controversial law on Transparency of Foreign Influence. After that, the law was adopted.
This step outraged Western partners. In particular, we reported earlier that the European Union was preparing a response after the Georgian parliament finally passed the law on foreign agents.
Recently it became known that the EU has suspended Georgia's accession to the bloc because of the adopted law on foreign agents.
