NATO-Georgia leaders meeting planned
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili is set to meet NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels this month.
The November 17 meeting was announced after Garibashvili met head of the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia William Lahue in Tbilisi earlier today.
It will be the first meeting between Garibashvili and the new NATO leader.
Today Lahue and Garibashvili discussed NATO-Georgia partnership issues. Special attention was paid to the importance of the Substantial Package Georgia received from the Alliance following the Wales Summit in September.
The sides expressed their hope that Georgia’s security and defence possibilities would increase once the support package was implemented.
The Ukraine crisis was also discussed at the meeting.
Lahue once again thanked Garibashvili for Georgia’s participation in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
NATO has decided to publically release an introduction to the Substantial NATO-GEORGIA Package, says Georgia’s Embassy in the United States of America. On the Embassy's official webpage the first three points of the the introduction to the document were published.
On the opening day of the NATO Summit in Wales, Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili met NATO’s top official and spoke briefly on the support package NATO will offer Georgia in the next two days.
NATO may hold military exercises in Georgia and establish a military training centre in the country, see more Georgian participation in NATO exercises and possibly expand the local NATO liaison office - a top NATO official said.
Praising Georgia’s support for NATO in Afghanistan, Head of the NATO Laison Office in Georgia William Lahew said the Georgian soldiers contribute to strengthening the defense capacity of the alliance.
NATO has introduced a new head of mission at the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia. The new head is Rosaria Puglisi, who replaced William Lahue in the role. Puglisi had been deputy head of the NATO Liaison Office in Georgia since April of 2017.