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NATO confirms Georgia will join Alliance

Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008

     TBILISI.  Aug  22  (Interfax)  -  Georgia will become a NATO member
eventually  and  the  country  is  on  a  path  to being included in the
Membership  Action Plan (MAP), a program to help nations seeking to join
the North Atlantic alliance, a senior NATO envoy confirmed on Friday.
     Robert  Simmons,  NATO  special representative for the Caucasus and
Central  Asia,  who  made the announcement at a briefing in Tbilisi, did
not say when MAP would be extended to Georgia.

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