TBILISI. March 27 (Interfax) - Georgia did not plan to be admitted to NATO in 2014, Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said.
"We have never said that the NATO summit this year will make a decision on Georgia's admission to the alliance," Panjikidze told journalists on Thursday in commenting on U.S. President Barack Obama's statement in Brussels suggesting that NATO does not have enlargement plans at the present time.
The U.S. president, however, did not mean that Georgia and Ukraine are not on the track toward joining NATO, she said.
"Georgia is firmly following this way, which means that it is pursuing democratic reforms and strengthening democracy on this way," she said.
"We have always said that it's going to be precisely so and that the NATO summit this year will note progress that Georgia has made in the past year and a half or two years. So we are on this track, and nobody is saying anything against this. We are following this way with the belief that Georgia will become a NATO member one day, and it should be no surprise to anyone that this won't happen at this summit," Panjikidze said.