The Parliamentary Opposition Parties make a joint statement supporting NATO membership. As provided in the statement, NATO membership constitutes a key instrument for Georgia in enhancing independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty, democracy and national security.

“We, the Political Parties represented to the Parliament and independent Members of Parliament, being guided under the national interests and the Constitution of Georgia, as we affirm an intact will of Georgia and its citizens on NATO membership, which has been expressed by our numerous applications on our aspirations from NATO Prague Summit 2002, the plebiscite on NATO membership held in 2008, and safeguarding our NATO aspiration by the Constitutional Articles in 2017, as we adjoin the international order based on the norms and principles of the international law, and share the values that serve as a foundation for the NATO organizations, providing that the consistent approach of the NATO members states to the collective defense has ensured a unified, free and peaceful Europe, highlighting that the NATO “open door” policy is a key facilitating factor for the democratic transformation of the Central and Eastern Europe, as we refer to the decision of the NATO Bucharest Summit 2008 that Georgia will become a NATO member, underlining that under the decisions of the NATO Wales and Warsaw Summits, Georgia holds all practical instruments for membership, taking into consideration that by participating in NATO peacekeeping missions and operations represented by the wide range of the military personnel for years – Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan – Georgia has proved to be capable of stand not as a recipient of the NATO security but a contributor thereto; we are united in the approval of NATO membership of Georgia and make a statement as follows:

1. We affirm that NATO membership is a key instrument for Georgia in enhancing independence, territorial integrity and sovereignty, democracy and national security and is based on unanimous, wide political and public support;

2. We extend our absolute solidarity to Ukraine in its fight for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity against a full-scale Russian military aggression; we believe that the war provoked by Russia is a continuation of a terroristic and open military aggression that Russia has conducted against Georgia in 2008; and no peace in the Euro-Atlantic area based on the international law can be ensured without Georgia and Ukraine integration to NATO;

3. We hail the NATO updated strategic concept endorsing the loyalty to the open door policy; the NATO Bucharest Summit 2008 decision has been reiterated; and Russia was refused to form its own influence spheres and realize its direct control on its neighbors through violence, subversion, aggression and annexation;

4. We express our gratitude to NATO and its member states for their essential and practical support, as well as the decision made at the NATO Madrid Summit to render the needs-tailored political and practical support to Georgia, which allows Georgia to intensify its efforts for the creation of unity and resilience, develop capacities and enhance political independence;

5. We hail NATO’s decision on the membership of Finland and in the nearest future Sweden without an action plan, since we believe it to serve as a historical precedent for the NATO members-to-be as a practical dimension of membership, including without the action plan;

6. We emphasize the importance of the political decision to be made at the Vilnius Summit and further concerning Georgia’s NATO membership and in this view, the necessity of an agreement on consistent, certain and procedural steps;

7. We express our commitment to applying all available platforms, including the international parliamentary assemblies to facilitate the progress of Georgia at NATO integration path to ensure final membership”, - the statement provides.