The Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili holds the meetings in the NATO Brussels Headquarter within his first official visit.

Today, the Speaker met with the NATO Deputy Secretary General, Mircea Geoană and participated in the meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission.

The Speaker delivered the speech at the NGC sitting speaking about his plans on the enhancement of the Parliamentary oversight and democratic reforms.

According to him, the representatives of every member state have expressed their support to the territorial integrity, sovereignty and NATO aspiration of Georgia, thus reaffirming the NATO open-door policy.

“At the NGC sitting, from the representatives of every member state we have heard the supportive words for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and NATO aspiration of Georgia, thus reaffirming the NATO open-door policy and that Georgia will soon access NATO. It is important that soon Madrid will host the NATO Summit with the agenda including the new strategy of NATO, in the development of which Georgia takes its place. They offered us to introduce our proposals. I believe this strategy will be crucial to reflect the Black Sea security issues, the membership of the aspirant states and the countries, reaffirmation of our perspectives and certain messages”, - the Speaker stated.