One of the individuals has been accused of photographing a base that is a NATO operations centre and a conduit for Western military aid to Ukraine.
Russia has criticised Armenia for participating in a NATO summit in Washington, calling Armenia’s move to deepen ties with NATO and its member states ‘imprudent’. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said on Thursday that Moscow ‘deeply regrets’ Armenia’s participation in the 9–11 July NATO summit in Washington DC. Galuzin additionally criticised Yerevan for choosing to increase cooperation with NATO and its member states, ‘especially in terms of implementing NATO standards, purc
The NATO declaration adopted at a Washington summit does not reference Georgia’s path towards membership, as Georgia’s rift with the West continues to deepen. In the declaration adopted on Wednesday, Georgia is mentioned only once, in a call on Russia to ‘withdraw all of its forces from the Republic of Moldova and Georgia, stationed there without their consent’. The 2008 Bucharest and 2018 Brussels Summit Declaration stated that NATO ‘welcomes Ukraine’s and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirat
Last week, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg toured the South Caucasus to visit the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. This week, we speak to political analyst and head of the Regional Center for Democracy Tigran Grigoryan about the significance of a new partnership agreement between Armenia and NATO, to independent researcher Shujaat Ahmadzada about the importance of Azerbaijani gas after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and to Civic Idea’s Giorgi Shaishmelas
Armenia and NATO have announced that a new partnership programme between them will be approved ‘soon’. The Individually Tailored Partnership Programme (ITPP) would coordinate ties between Yerevan and the security bloc, replacing an older agreement adopted in 2006. In Stoltenberg’s annual report for 2023, the NATO chief’s office described ITPP as a programme that ‘brings together all aspects of NATO’s collaboration into a strategic and goal-oriented framework’ in a process that spans a four-y
Leading members of Georgia’s Republican Party have accused Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili of apologising to Vladimir Putin over their criticism of Russia’s annexation of Crimea. On Tuesday, the party’s head, MP Khatuna Samnidze, revealed that Ivanishvili had been angry with her party in 2014 for criticising the Russian annexation. The Republicans were original members of the Georgian Dream-led coalition that ousted the United National Movement (UNM) in 2012 — the first peaceful t
Do you agree that Georgia should declare military neutrality while maintaining European integration? That would mean that Georgia will not be a member of any military alliance. The military bases of foreign countries will not be located in Georgia and military training with the participation of foreign countries will not be conducted. There are three possible answers: ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘I don’t know/I haven’t decided yet’. This is a question being used by one anti-Western party with several MPs
