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Article: NATO claims solidarity with Georgia
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- September 16, 2008
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NATO's chief assured Georgia on Tuesday that the alliance stands by the beleaguered nation after its war with Russia and supports its drive to join Western institutions.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer met with Georgia's parliament speaker in the second day of a visit that comes with thousands of Russian troops on its soil more than a month after a war that has caused mounting confrontation between Moscow and the West.
De Hoop Scheffer said he and the NATO ambassadors of all 26 allies were in the ex-Soviet republic "to show solidarity with its people, to show that we stand by them as they work to reshape their country and take their proper place in the ...