NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Georgia is NATO membership candidate country and it continues cooperation with the Alliance.
"We are working with Ukraine and Georgia as close partners. As for Georgia, it is a candidate country, we are working with it and support its efforts to modernize its armed forces, reform and come to NATO standards. The last summit, we received a substantial package and we are working on this package now. We sent advisers and recently opened a joint training center. This is a powerful, important signal of how we develop co-operation and  support Georgia,-he said.

NATO should leave the doors open for Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova- this statement was made by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda. According to him, a lot of people thought in 80-s of 20^th century that none of the conflicts would happen. Because of that the activeness of NATO was decreased but the situation was changed in the last years and one of the process was August war in 2008.
“I think that NATO should leave the doors open for Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova-“he said. 

The Foreign Relations Committee of European Parliament has supported the visa free regime for Georgia. The European Parliament has conducted voting on granting visa liberalization to Georgia, Ukraine and Kosovo recently.
According to reports, the voting result will be sent to the Committee of Equality and Justice. This committee is leading committee in term of visa liberalization issue. 

TAIEX is a demand-driven tool that supports partner countries with the approximation of national laws, regulations and quality standards to those of EU Member States in the framework of Cooperation or Association agreements signed with the EU. In the Eastern Neighbourhood, TAIEX works with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. (EU Neighbourhood Info).

Turkish media have released images purporting to show three of the Istanbul airport attackers minutes before they opened fire, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 200. According to a government official, the suicide bombers were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Chilling CCTV footage showed one of the attackers shooting down an undercover police officer who had approached him.
More footage showed panicked crowds running across the airport after hearing gunshots — and one assailant who came in to find the check-in terminal empty apparently throwing his rifle on the ground in frustration.
Turkey said evidence pointed towards the Islamic State militant group. Police carried out raids across Istanbul and arrested at least thirteen people in connection with the attack, including three foreigners, according to the interior minister. The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper reported that the mastermind of the attack was from the small republic of Chechnya.
On Thursday, a memorial was held at Ataturk airport. At least 24 Turks and 20 foreigners died in Tuesday’s attack. Two Palestinian women and a three year-old boy were among those killed. Other foreign victims include Saudis, Iraqis and citizens from China, Jordan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Iran and Ukraine.

Head of National Guard of the Georgian Armed Forces, Brigadier General Levan Gamkrelidze held an official visit to Ukraine. At the meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Lieutenant General Yuriy Allerov the sides discussed ongoing cooperation issues and future prospects. The sides also agreed to share experience in training. The Ukrainian General familiarized his Georgian counterpart with the reforms as well.
Deputy Head of National Guard, Colonel Anzor Goguadze and Georgia’s Defence Attaché to Ukraine, Colonel Zurab Pochkhua attended the meeting as well. Following Ukraine, the Georgian delegation left for Tallinn to attend the parade dedicated to Estonian Victory Day and other events.

The issue of Georgia and Ukraine visa free regime will be granted at EU Ministerial by Estonian side. According to the Foreign Minister of Estonia, Marina Kaljurand, she will discuss this issue soon. This statement was made by her in the frames of meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Pavel Klimkin.
As Foreign Minister of Estonia said, the west will decide to prolong sanctions against Russia. 

Hopes in Georgia, Ukraine and Kosovo that the European Union would approve their visa-free access to the bloc by the summer have faded in recent days amid a raft of new concerns raised by the bloc’s biggest member states. The issues range from German concerns about organized crime by Georgian gangs to worries in France that the visa deals could create new security vulnerabilities at a time of heightened terror fears.
EU officials and diplomats now say that September appears to be the earliest date that EU governments and the European Parliament could sign off the agreements. The deal would give millions of citizens from these countries who hold biometric passports visa-free access to the border-free Schengen zone covering most EU nations. The U.K. and Ireland are outside Schengen.
For the bloc, the visa-free regimes are a key tool for binding their neighbors closer and for advancing reforms in those countries. Delays could deplete pro-western forces in countries like Georgia and Ukraine, who are struggling with their hostile Russian neighbor.
In recent months, the European Commission, the EU’s executive, has recommended visa-free status for Georgia, Ukraine, Kosovo andTurkey. The latter’s bid has already been put on the back burner with EU and Turkish officials now targeting an October deal as Ankara completes several final tasks.The other three countries’ bids were expected to move rapidly. On Wednesday, however, ambassadors from the EU’s 28 nations failed to gather enough support to back Georgia’s bid.
Georgia has been waiting for a decision on its visa-free regime since December. But in recent days, German officials have argued that Berlin’s backing for a deal is contingent on more efforts to stamp out Georgian organized crime gangs that German authorities blame for a spate of house robberies, German and EU officials say. On Wednesday, Berlin asked the commission to report on Georgian crime gangs across the bloc, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Other countries have also slowed down approval. Italy and France have said a decision should await the approval of new rules which will make it easier to suspend visa-free regimes in case of abuse. The European Parliament is only expected to formally back the changes in September.
Diplomats say there are some EU governments who want to hold up any decisions on Georgia, Ukraine and Kosovo until they consider Turkey’s visa-free application.
That has created growing concerns in Kiev, Tbilisi and Pristina. “Brussels literally has no more reasons to delay,” Kosovo’s PresidentHashim Thaci told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, saying his government will complete its final visa-linked task before the summer by pushing through parliament a border agreement with Montenegro. Mr. Thaci said he doesn’t want to interfere in decisions by the EU governments but that he hoped Kosovo’s bid would win backing within three-to-six months of the commission’s May recommendation.
“Kosovo should not be held hostage to any disagreements between—in this case Brussels and Ankara. We have done our homework,” he said.
Georgia’s government was hoping the visa-free bid would boost pro-European parties ahead of elections in October. During a visit to Brussels on Wednesday, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvilimade only a brief public mention of the issue but a senior EU official said he lobbied hard for the visa-free bid in meetings with top officials.\
There are similar concerns in Ukraine, where President Petro Poroshenko has placed the issue high up his agenda since last year. The commission recommended Ukraine’s visa-free bid in April./
source: wall street journal