NATO said Friday that it hoped to open a training center in Georgia by the end of the year, signaling a strengthening of its relationship with the former Soviet republic that is likely to antagonize Russia.
Georgia’s government has long hoped to join the military alliance. But Russia, which fought a 2008 war with Georgia over two Moscow-backed breakaway regions, has said such a move would threaten its security.
The Kremlin last month accused NATO of turning another former Soviet state, Ukraine, into a “front line of confrontation” amid the worst standoff between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.
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Source: Voice of America
