{"id":161039,"date":"2025-06-18T16:28:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=161039"},"modified":"2025-06-18T16:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:39:33","slug":"nato-not-discussing-georgias-membership-says-kobakhidze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/161039\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO not discussing Georgia\u2019s membership, says Kobakhidze"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>NATO is not considering Georgia&rsquo;s and Ukraine&rsquo;s accession to the alliance in the medium term, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze <a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20250618\/nato-2023593119.html?in=l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As for NATO-Georgia relations, you can see how recent events have developed. NATO says it is not discussing Ukraine&rsquo;s and Georgia&rsquo;s accession&hellip; in the near or medium-term perspective, which is a fact. Let&rsquo;s see how events develop in the future,&rdquo; Kobakhidze stated.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2008 Bucharest Summit, NATO announced that Georgia would become a member of the alliance in the future. In 2015, the NATO-Georgia training center was opened, becoming an important element in training Georgian and international troops. NATO membership has been a priority in Tbilisi&rsquo;s foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO is not considering Georgia&rsquo;s and Ukraine&rsquo;s accession to the alliance in the medium term, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told reporters. &ldquo;As for NATO-Georgia relations, you can see how recent events have developed. NATO says it is not discussing Ukraine&rsquo;s and Georgia&rsquo;s accession&hellip; in the near or medium-term perspective, which is a fact. Let&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":161025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-georgia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}