“Nothing will change Georgia’s determination” to pursue EU, NATO membership - President

Nothing will change Georgia’s determination to pursue its path toward the European Union and NATO membership, President Salome Zourabichvili said on Thursday in an interview with the French magazine Marie Claire. 

Zourabichvili underlined the “fragility” of Georgia and Moldova in not being protected by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty as non-members in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and pointed to the historical context of Georgia’s experience of four Russian invasions over the past two centuries.

Nothing will change our determination to pursue our path towards the European Union and NATO. The fragility of Georgia and Moldova, countries on the periphery of Russia, is not being protected by Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,” she said.

The Georgian President also spoke about the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine, praising her Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “extraordinary” effort in the information front of the war.

While his soldiers were at war, he campaigned on screens providing real-time information. I have rarely seen such a strategy and the support he receives today from the United States is the result of this campaign. And with this support, one can reasonably be optimistic,” Zourabichvili noted.