Lavrov: Georgia’s ‘forceful’ integration into NATO to be crossing of red lines

Russian FM Sergey Lavrov says that Georgia does not wish and it is forced to integrate into NATO, noting that if this happens, it will be the crossing of red lines. 

 

Lavrov made the statement at his recent meeting with de facto FMs of Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions in Sochi. 

 

Lavrov also claimed that the majority of Georgians are against the country’s NATO integration, while according to all polls the majority of Georgian citizens approve the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration. 

 

He also stated that Russia’s position to NATO enlargement is known, and that the country’s recently raised demands to the alliance, ‘not to allow the membership of Georgia and Ukraine,’ one again pointed at this.