Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Georgia

Saakashvili Calls For Georgia To Be Admitted Into NATO

Georgian President Mikhail Sakashvili (file photo) (ITAR-TASS)

3 February 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili today called for his country to be admitted into NATO.

TEXT SIZE - +

February 03, 2006

Saakashvili made the call in opening remarks at a gathering of leading politicians, and military experts attending a three-day security conference in Munich.

Saakashvili said that Georgia's admission into NATO would benefit both sides.

Leading topics to be discussed at the conference are the Iranian nuclear standoff, the war on terrorism, and the future of NATO, among others.

U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov are among other top defense officials due to address the gathering.

(RFE/RL, AP, dpa)

RFE/RL Caucasus Report

SUBSCRIBE For weekly news and in-depth analysis on Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Russia's North Caucasus by e-mail, subscribe to "RFE/RL Caucasus Report."

President Serzh Sarkisian has promised fair elections

Prospect Of Vote-Rigging Overshadows Armenian Election

The Armenian parliamentary elections due in May will not simply be a struggle between rival political parties with diverging priorities and platforms. More

Alla Dzhioyeva attends a protest by her supporters in Tskhinvali on January 28.

South Ossetian Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Raid

Alla Dzhioyeva, the opposition candidate whose victory in a runoff ballot in November for de facto president of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia was swiftly annulled by the republic's Supreme Court, was taken to a hospital after a raid by some 200 masked security personnel on her headquarters in Tskhinvali. More

Former KGB head Leonid Tibilov is a presidential hopeful.

Repeat South Ossetian Election Campaign Gathers Momentum

The run-up to the repeat election on March 24 for a new de facto president of Georgia's breakaway Republic of South Ossetia bears an uncanny resemblance to last November's election campaign. More