S. Korea vows to help Georgia re-plant burnt forest in Borjomi
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South Korea has expressed readiness to support Georgia in re-planting a recently burnt forest in the Borjomi gorge in the country’s east.
The promise was voiced by deputy speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, a legislative body, Park Joosun at the meeting with Georgia’s Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze in Kutaisi today.
Georgian officials say 200 hectares of forest were burnt in the Borjomi gorge during the fire last month.
The Korean delegation arrived to Georgia today. Photo by Parliament of Georgia press office.
Kobakhidze thanked the Korean official for the support and stressed despite a long distance between the two nations Georgia and Korea enjoy "significant progress” in trade, energy, education and tourism.
The Georgian Speaker thanked South Korea for their support to Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and condemned North Korea’s nuclear tests which "create threat not only for the Korean Peninsula but the whole global security.”
The forest fire in Georgia’s Borjomi Gorge has been extinguished and firefighting crews from neighbouring countries are leaving the gorge.
A Georgian border police helicopter made an emergency landing while filling the reservoir in Borjomi Gorge this morning.
Interior Ministry said the pilot did his best to land on the water in such a way as to avoid casualties.
UPDATED: Azerbaijan has sent a helicopter to help Georgian firefighters handle a massive wildfire that broke out yesterday afternoon near the village of Daba in the Borjomi Municipality in central Georgia.
A fire erupted over about 0.5 hectares of forest lands on a mountain in Georgia’s Samtskhe-Javakheti region, the National Forest Agency reports. The helicopter firefighters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will participate in the fire-rescue operation.
NaelTour, one of the leading tourism agencies in South Korea, will sell travel tour packages for Georgia, announced Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Georgia has attracted the interest of a large Korean corporation SK E&C. Georgia’s Economy Minister Dimitry Kumsishvili today met the Executive Vice-President of the Korean corporation SK E&C, Seung Su Lee in Tbilisi.
The interest of the South Korean people in Georgia is increasing year-on-year, head of the National Assembly of South Korea Moon Hee-sang has told Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia during a meeting held in Tbilisi earlier today.