WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — In 2008, Georgia applied for membership in NATO. Since then a NATO commission has monitored Tbilisi's progress in matching the standards of the military bloc. Georgian membership in the alliance will be addressed at the NATO June summit in Warsaw.
"We don’t plan to have permanent troops on the ground [in Georgia], but we do plan to increase the tempo of our exercises and trainings with Georgia," Carpenter stated.
