BRUSSELS: NATO allies said on Tuesday they were "seriously considering" the implications of Russia's actions in Georgia and that regular contacts were impossible until it's troops had been fully withdrawn.
"We have determined that we cannot continue with business as usual," the 26 NATO states said in a joint declaration after emergency talks in Brussels over the South Ossetia conflict.
Separately, they agreed to set up a new forum known as a NATO-Georgia Commission to deepen ties with Tbilisi. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a news conference it would function along similar lines to an 11-year-old arrangement with Ukraine but would not prejudge Georgia's prospects of entering the alliance.
