TBILISI. March 6 (Interfax-AVN) - Proposals explaining expediency of opening of the regional office of NATO's Partnership for Peace program in Georgia will be ready before summer, Deputy Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said on Thursday.
"Georgia will complete the package of its proposals concerning expediency of opening the regional PfP office in the country by May or June, when traditional annual meetings of chiefs-of-staff and defense ministers of NATO members and partners begin at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels," Bezhuashvili told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He recalled that Defense Minister David Tevzadze came up with the idea to open the PfP office in Tbilisi.
A positive decision on the issue is "absolutely possible," Bezhuashvili said.
If a decision is made to open the office in the Trans- Caucasus, chances are high that it will be hosted by Tbilisi, because Armenian-Azerbaijani relations are pretty tense, the deputy defense minister said.
Georgia has been involved in the PfP program since 1994.