Georgian PM leaves for US
Mamuka Bakhtadze will firstly visit the US as the Georgian prime minister. Photo: ipress.ge.
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Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze will leave for US on September 16 as he announced today.
I will meet with my colleagues, friends. Of course, we will discuss the most painful challenges Georgia is facing currently,” Bakhtadze said.
The PM will also deliver speech at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly.
This is the tribune, where from we can speak about the most challenging issues for Georgia,” Bakhtadze said.
He stated that he will also have “very important meetings” at the UN headquarters and said that he is waiting for important outcomes from the meetings in US, which will further enhance ties between Georgia and US.
Bakhtadze is scheduled to hold his first meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg today, after which Bakhtadze and Stoltenberg will make statements for the media.
Top Georgian officials, the foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine have commemorated the Russia-Georgia 2008 war on its 10th anniversary and spoke about the fatal consequences of the short but violent war.
Prime Minister of Georgia will leave for Azerbaijan today to meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev as well as the PM Novruz Mammadov and parliamentary speaker Ogtay Asadov.
David Zalkaliani as Foreign Minister, Giorgi Cherkezishvili as Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development, and Nikoloz Gagua as Finance Minister are newcomers to the cabinet which took office immediately following the vote.