By IRNA,
Berlin : NATO plans to rebuild Georgia’s military infrastructure which was destroyed during the three-week-old war with Russia, in a move expected to ratchet up renewed tensions with Moscow.
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is scheduled to travel to the Georgian capital Tbilisi on September 15 and 16 for talks with that country’s leadership.
The scope of NATO’s military aid for Georgia was still unclear.
Plans to send NATO AWACS planes to patrol the skies of the Caucasus republic have reportedly been cancelled.
“But we will help them to rebuild Georgia’s destroyed military infrastructure,” a NATO representative was quoted saying.
The US and Israel had played a major role in arming the Georgian military before the Russian war.
Georgia’s war cost estimates with Russia were about one billion US dollars in damages, according to Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze.
Based on media reports, Georgia’s whole national budget in 2007 stood at around three billion US dollars.