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In 2006, the Georgian parliament voted unanimously for a bill which calls for the integration of Georgia into NATO. On 5 January 2008 Georgia held a non-binding referendum on NATO membership with 77% voting in favor of joining the organization.
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is regarded as the first European war of ...
The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia created controversy, with both sides blaming each other for starting the war.. Although the Russian authorities have claimed that it was Georgia that started the war by launching an unprovoked attack on the separatist-controlled city of Tskhinvali (located within Georgia's internationally recognised borders) and the Russian Armed Forces only responded to ...
In 2005, President Mikheil Saakashvili said that Georgia would become NATO member by 2009. [185] Georgia sought membership in NATO for reasons of both security and its own development as a state. [285] Georgia believed that NATO membership would end the Russian hegemony in the Caucasus. The Abkhaz and South Ossetian conflicts would be resolved ...
In 2009, the Assembly approved the creation of a Georgia-NATO inter-parliamentary council. The Georgia-NATO Interparliamentary Council is composed of the Assembly's Bureau (President, Vice-Presidents and Treasurer) and the 4-member Georgian delegation to the NATO PA.
Russia defeated Georgia in a short war in 2008. Several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the parliament building ahead of a mass protest that civil society organisations have called for ...
The Parliament of Georgia is the country's supreme representative body which effects legislative authority, determines the main directions of the country's home and foreign policy, controls the activity of the Government within limits defined by the Constitution and exercises other rights. [9] The Parliament of Georgia is a unicameral legislature.
The Georgian parliament passed a law this year curbing LGBT rights and Pride events have been attacked by violent mobs in years past. ... which ruled Georgia for about 200 years, won a brief war ...