NATO envoy to go to Georgia to discuss cooperation and integration

TBILISI, April 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Official NATO Representative for the
Caucasus and Central Asia James Appathurai will go to Tbilisi on a two-day
visit on Thursday, April 7, to discuss the development of cooperation
between the alliance and Georgia and its integration into NATO.
Appathurai will have meetings with a Vice-Prime Minister and State
Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Georgy Baramidze,
Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze, Defence Minister Bacho Akhalaya,
Security Council Secretary Giga Bokeria, and State Minister for
Reintegration Eka Tkeshelashvili, as well as the leaders of major
opposition organisations.
Georgia's top officials say that Tbilisi continues the policy of
integration with NATO and say that membership in the alliance will help to
strengthen the country's independence, security and sovereignty,
facilitate its socio-economic and democratic development.