Baku-APA. NATO ambassadors arrived here Wednesday for their third visit since 2008, with the alliance chief reiterating Georgia will join the military alliance but not indicating when, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The ongoing visit was put off from late last year after the then opposition coalition won the Georgian legislative polls in October.
A NATO-Georgia Commission is now in session with the participation of NATO ambassadors and Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili along with Georgian defense and interior ministers.
While addressing a press briefing before the commission session with Ivanishvili, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the NATO resolution made in its Budapest summit in April of 2008 still stood.
NATO member states agreed in the Hungarian capital Georgia would become a member but set no timetable.
NATO ambassadors first visited Tbilisi in September 2008 soon after the Georgia-Russia conflict in South Ossetia. They returned in November 2011, before putting off last year's scheduled third visit.
A NATO Week was organized in Georgia prior to the visit. The special publicity week was designed to arouse public awareness about the western military alliance and Georgia's integration efforts.
Small gatherings were seen outside the NATO-Georgia Commission meeting place. One group called upon the Georgian government to withdraw Georgian troops from Afghanistan, where the South Caucasus country has 1,561 service men and women, the largest non-NATO contribution.
Georgia has lost 29 of its troops in Afghanistan while serving the International Security Assistance Force mission in Afghanistan.
Another group demonstrated its support for Georgia's efforts to join NATO.
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