ArmInfo. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced the possibility of organizing joint military exercises with the Alliance in Georgia.
He stated this at today's press conference in Brussels after an emergency meeting on the situation in Ukraine with the Ministers of the Alliance members, as well as the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Finland and Sweden.
According to him, NATO intends to strengthen Georgia's defense system and share its experience with it. And this relates to closer cooperation. "We are developing mechanisms for closer cooperation with Georgia and other candidate countries. We are talking about possible joint exercises. Because, as the recent developments in Ukraine have shown us, the country can be a target for a third country, in particular Russia, and we cannot turn a blind eye to this", the NATO Secretary General stressed.
At the same time, he reiterated that the allies agree that NATO planes should not be in the skies of Ukraine, and NATO troops on the territory of Ukraine. "We must return to the diplomatic way of resolving the conflict," he said.