Georgian PM sends condolences over death of former senator Richard Lugar
PM Bakhtadze wrote on his official Twitter account that world had lost a great statesman and Georgia is forever grateful to him. Photo: PM's press office.
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Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has sent his condolences over the death of former Indiana Senator Richard Lugar.
Lugar, a foreign policy expert who served in the US Senate for 36 years and helped lead the dismantling process of thousands of nuclear warheads and missiles from former Soviet states, passed away at the age of 87 on Sunday.
Bakhtadze wrote on his official Twitter account that world had lost a great statesman and Georgia is forever grateful to him.
World has lost a great statesman, who has been instrumental in American foreign policy for decades. Sen. Richard Lugar was a great friend of ???????? & will always stay in our memories as a person who has made a world a better place. ???????? is forever grateful.
— Mamuka Bakhtadze (@BakhtadzeMamuka) April 28, 2019
Lugar’s non-profit organisation, the Lugar Center, says he died of complications from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, an illness which attacks the nerves.
Tbilisi is host to the Lugar Lab, officially called the Center for Public Health Research, which is named after former American Senator Richard Lugar.
It became operational in 2013. The centre is run by Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), under the Georgian Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs.
Head of the Disease Control Centre of the Ministry of Health of Georgia David Gamkrelidze has stated today that 23 international experts have drafted a report regarding the US-founded Lugar lab in Tbilisi, in the wake of Russian accusations about illegal experiments being conducted at the site.
International experts from 17 countries are exploring how the US-built, Tbilisi-based Lugar Center works amid Russian allegations and reports about supposed illegal experiments conducted at the center.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he has heard information about genetic research being conducted at the US-built, Tbilisi-based Lugar Centre and added that if the information is valid the news is “alarming.”
Head of the National Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) of Georgia Amiran Gamkrelidze says that recent allegations of the Russian media and state officials regarding illegal experiments at the Tbilisi-based, US-built Lugar Laboratory are “unimaginable falsehoods and slander.”