NATO has been deceiving both Georgia and Ukraine for years by promising to admit them into the alliance, while in fact it never planned to do so, Tbilisi Mayor and secretary general of the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party Kakha Kaladze said. "Throughout all these years, countries like Georgia and Ukraine have been deceived that NATO’s door is open for them. "NATO countries, including France and Britain, say that NATO is not planning to expand eastward. Earlier, Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s ambassador to London and former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, dismissed talk about Ukraine’s potential NATO membership as "fairy tales." At a summit in Prague in November 2002, the then Georgian president, Eduard Shevardnadze, officially announced his country’s intention to join NATO.