The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte released the Secretary General’s Annual Report for 2024, outlining the organization’s key achievements and priorities over the past year.

“NATO’s global network of partnerships has been developing for over 30 years. The Alliance cooperates with partners on a bilateral basis, as well as through regional partnership frameworks.

In the Euro-Atlantic area, Allies are actively engaged with 16 partner countries, bilaterally and through the EuroAtlantic Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace programme.11 Among these partners, NATO has developed specific structures for its relationships with Ukraine and Georgia.

NATO and Georgia also continued their practical cooperation to strengthen Georgia’s security and defence capabilities and enhance interoperability with the Alliance.

The Georgian Defence Forces participated in the NATO Coalition Warrior Interoperability Exercise 2024 (CWIX24) in Poland in June and members of the Georgian Border Police deployed to Operation Sea Guardian in September 2024, marking the second rotation for Georgia as an operational partner. NATO’s engagement in the South Caucasus continues to be supported by the NATO Liaison Office in Tbilisi, Georgia”, - reads the report.

Notably absent from the report is any mention of NATO’s 2008 Bucharest Summit commitment that Georgia will become a NATO member. The same omission applies to Ukraine.