NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg leaves the Labour Youth Organisation (AUF) summer camp after staying the night on the island in Utoya, August 7, 2015. REUTERS/Toratein Boe/NTB Scanpix
TBILISI (Reuters) - NATO said a new training centre opened in Georgia on Thursday would help the former Soviet republic to move closer to membership in the military alliance, a prospect sharply opposed by neighbouring Russia.
Georgia's government has long hoped to join the alliance. But Russia, which fought a 2008 war with Georgia over two Moscow-backed breakaway regions, has said such a move would threaten its security.
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