German Chancellor says Georgia will join NATO:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Geor...erkel_999.html

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday assured Georgia would join NATO as she strongly backed the ex-Soviet republic's President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia.

"Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to -- and it does want to," she told reporters before talks with Saakashvili in Tbilisi.

It was one of the strongest statements yet of support for Georgia's NATO membership bid, which is fiercely opposed by Russia.
I think that's an interesting statement coming from the W. European country most closely aligned with Russia.