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Georgian Interior Minister Irakly Okruashvili has said that as soon as he is appointed defense minister, he will carry out all the necessary reforms to help his country become a candidate for NATO membership in 2006. \"Integration with NATO is one of Georgia\'s top priorities,\" Okruashvili said in an interview with Georgia\'s Rustavi 2 television late on Tuesday. (Interfax).The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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