The ministry said the NATO Secretary General's envoy to the South Caucasus and Central Asia Robert Simmons would look into the reform of the Armed Forces and other sectors the ex-Soviet state is conducting to meet requirements for membership in the alliance.
Simmons will also meet with the minister in charge of conflict resolution, the foreign and defense ministers, the ministry said.
Georgia has pushed to join the Cold War-era organization since the Western-educated President Mikheil Saakashvili came to power on the back of mass protests in 2003.
Tbilisi hopes NATO membership will help it regain control of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are backed by Russia. Russia helped to end the bloody conflicts in the region in the early 1990s and has maintained peacekeeping troops there ever since.
The U.S. House of Representatives gave a final backing to NATO's further eastward enlargement, including bids from ex-Soviet Georgia and Ukraine on Monday, promising a total of $12 million in aid to the two countries and former Communist-bloc members Albania, Croatia and Macedonia in 2008. The bill is yet to be signed by the president.
NATO's ongoing expansion has unnerved Russia, which already feels itself to be "encircled" by the alliance's bases on the territory of its former Soviet allies in the Baltic region and Central Asia.
Moscow strongly opposes efforts by Georgia and Ukraine to join the alliance, saying the prospect threatens its security and prompts a new arms race.
