Foreign Ministers of NATO member states will meet today in Brussels, Belgium, to discuss the alliance’s open door policy and progress achieved by aspirant countries. Today’s meeting will be preparational for NATO Summit to be held in July in Brussels.

James Appathurai, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy and NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia evaluated the report of aspirant countries.

In an exclusive interview with First Channel, Appathurai said that Georgia is invited to the summit and sitting of NATO-Georgia Commission will be held on the sidelines of the summit.

“I believe that progress achieved by Georgia has to be appreciated. The way we have passed and how we reached to this point. Georgia has everything to prepare for future membership.

Ten years passed after Bucharest Summit and new energy should be given to our cooperation. The path chosen by Georgia is the right one. Georgian government fully uses the opportunities. The time for making the decisions will come for sure,” Appathurai claimed in an interview with First Channel.

According to Appathurai, Montenegro’s example showed that despite Russia’s strong resistance, NATO made the decision about Montenegro’s NATO membership.

“NATO’s door is open to those countries, which want to become members of the alliance. This is unacceptable for Russia since it wants to have privileged and buffer zones,” Appatrurai claimed.