![]() Those reactions both reflect and reinforce the perception each side has of the other.Įver since the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Russia for its part promptly denounced the opening of the new facility as "the continuation of the alliance's provocative policy aimed at expanding its geopolitical influence" and "a serious destabilizing factor for security in the region." Georgian politicians, in the first instance parliament speaker Davit Usupashvili and his wife, Defense Minister Tinatin Khidasheli, continue to argue that what Georgia needs is NATO membership, not palliatives. Predictably, neither objective was achieved. The first was to reassure the Georgian leadership that the alliance remains committed to its previous pledges to support Georgia in its aspirations to become a NATO member the second was to avoid exacerbating even further the tensions between Russia and the West resulting from Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea and ongoing military support for the separatist movement in eastern Ukraine. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg traveled to Tbilisi last week for the formal opening of a NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Center intended to fulfill two mutually exclusive objectives.
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