Young Leaders Conference was held in Wales within the framework of NATO Summit. Defence Minister of Georgia took part in the forum organized by Atlantic Council, reports GHN based on the Ministry of Defense. While delivering a speech Irakli Alasania focused on the importance of the "Strengthened Cooperation" package for Georgia and the existing circumstances in the Ukraine: "Well, we do not know yet as the Summit has just started. But first of all, I want to thank you and all organizers of Atlantic Council for letting me be here with you. I am delighted. To go through to the question, I think what we know at this point - we had a meeting with Secretary General, we had meetings with other heads of the delegations. The substantial Georgia-NATO package will have some substance in it. At the beginning the announcement came that MAP wouldn't be granted to Georgia because it is not an extension Summit, it is not an enlargement Summit. We, of course, were very worried about it. Especially in the light what is happening around us - the direct military aggression against the Ukraine which is, in fact, the continuation of what was happening in Georgia in 2008. Of course, at the Summit we are declaratively supported Georgia's efforts that we made past years contributing to NATO, because we are the largest non-NATO contributor to Afghanistan and we remain the same after 2014 as the ISAF mission ends. We also started new missions in other parts in EU-led mission, for example in Central Africa. At the same time, not only form the military standpoint, we also progress dramatically on the democratic front. Free elections, transfer of powers through the democratic means that happened in 2012 as you mentioned when my coalition won and maturing of political system - these should be adequately assessed and declared in this Summit. So we have a very good optimism that the declaration of this Summit will have these two elements inside. Georgia has progress in interoperability with NATO - this is why we are offered to be one of the most interoperable partners. So we have so called "Golden Card" together with Sweden, Norway, Australia and Jordan. This is appreciation of how much we progress into being interoperable with NATO forces. NATO is not only a military organization. First of all it is a union of states of democracy. So we would like to join this club. That's why we progress dramatically in judiciary, law enforcement, security side. But of course, there are a lot of things we still need to do to transform the institutions. I think this is the Summit that takes into account all of these that Georgia has been doing. As the most important for me, as a Minister, I am going to take away from Summit: 1. Assessing Georgia as the most interoperable military force, as a partner; 2. The package says that Georgia needs to be assisted by the defence capabilities which is entire air defence, entire armor -that is instruments of purely defensive nature that we need. So these are two main things that we can take away. Of course, there is going to be an establishment of the NATO Training Center for NATO member and partners as well. We are going to have a core team imbedded at the Ministry of Defence and the Armed Forces overseen the implementation of the package. So we are going to see more NATO on the ground in Georgia because it also talks about rotational but regular presence of the troops of the allied countries on Georgian soil. All of these are something that encourages Georgian people to move ahead as the society with the reforms we started and hopefully, the next summit will be enlargement summit where Georgia gets to the membership of course. This is something that we have been facing for twenty years long which started in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Tskhinvali - started after the breakup of the Soviet Union. When we have ssen the accumulation of the paramilitary forces in power guided by the instructors, put them together to fight the central government. It has been perfected since then. What we see in the Ukraine is actually another level of the so called high warfare. I think the only thing we can counter only weapon, we can counter is first of all to have less and less infiltration of our institutions. This is number one problem in the Ukraine. The institutions specifically secure in defence institutions were infiltrated by the Russian influence people in cadre. The second, of course, is right hindering of the intelligence apparatus, because the only warning you need to have is not be available from you from the partners reliable if you are not reliable in that sense. So these are two things that need to be improved. The third and probably major one is the motivation of the armed forces, motivation of society to fight for their own country. This means that you have to have strong ideology and identity cautious. I think it is very tragic what is happening in the Ukraine but it helps them to get their self-identity. I think the Ukrainians are moving forward now to put together. It is tough but eventually it will happen. Georgians take it very painfully what is happening there. Because we went through it and we know how hard is to have such warfare with the Russian Federation. So we are transferring all the experience that we have gained. I commissioned the lessons learned from the 2008 war and the results have already passed to the Ukrainians. We are going also to help them how to build institution of defence which is going to transfer, which is under the political and civilian control of the government which we already successfully did. NATO said that we can export this kind of institutional knowledge to other countries like the Ukraine".