Georgia (country)–Russia relations

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has assured Tbilisi that Georgia will join the North Atlantic Alliance despite opposition from Moscow, the France press reported.

"All 29 allies clearly stated that Georgia should become a NATO member (...) We will continue to work together to prepare Georgia for membership," Stoltenberg said during a news conference with Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze.

Turkey is committed to defending Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Russia's foreign minister on March 6.       

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Feb. 5 that the crisis in Venezuela could only be solved by getting the authorities and the opposition to talk to each other, the RIA news agency reported.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Aug. 13 a four-way Syria summit "is planned in the upcoming future", with the leaders of Russia, France, Turkey and Germany attending.

Beta agency is reporting this, citing AFP.

"These regions on part of Georgia. They are not part of Russia and the United States continues to support Georgia's sovereignty, its independence and also its territorial integrity within the internationally recognized borders," said US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert.

Medvedev made the comment in an interview with the Kommersant Radio, Tanjug is reporting, citing TASS.

The prime minister recalled that the 2008 armed conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia, which also involved Russia, "was not inevitable" and "could have been prevented."

BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is insisting that Georgia will one day join the world's biggest security alliance, despite separatist ambitions in parts of the former Soviet republic.

And this is "despite separatist ambitions in parts of the former Soviet republic," Tanjug is reporting, citing AP.

"Georgia will become a member of NATO," Stoltenberg said, adding that NATO "supports the territorial integrity of Georgia, including its sovereignty over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia."

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Ankara fully supports the territorial integrity of neighboring Georgia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated on May 30, following the Syrian regime's decision to recognize the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.