Polish Embassy in Georgia to operate as NATO-Georgia contact point
NATO developed a network of Contact Point Embassies (CPE) in the early 1990s. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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The Embassy of Poland will play the role of a contact point embassy between NATO and Georgia for two years until the end of 2020.
Ambassador of Poland to Georgia Mariusz Maszkiewicz has announced the project will significantly contribute strong support to Georgian integration in NATO.
“Poland has always been a faithful friend of Georgia,” said Maszkiewicz.
The embassy reports that fulfilment of the contact point embassy duties also represents an important instrument for deepening Polish-Georgian cooperation.
NATO developed a network of Contact Point Embassies (CPE) in the early 1990s aimed at supporting a partnership with the alliance and public diplomatic activities in different countries involved in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), Partnership for Peace (PfP), Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) and Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI).
The contact point embassy will serve as a channel for spreading information on NATO’s role and policy in general.
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who served as the commanding general of the United States Army Europe, says that Georgia has left nothing to prove and NATO should invite the country to membership during its next summit, Hodges told Voice of America in an interview.
Georgia will host the largest yet edition of the Agile Spirit multinational defence drills with over 3,000 service members from NATO member states and partner countries this summer.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that North Macedonia’s accession into NATO means that the alliance door remains open to countries that meet the alliance’s standards and which adhere to NATO values of democracy.
Salome Zurabishvili, the new president of Georgia, is planning to forge closer ties with NATO and the European Union for boosting both trade and security of the Black Sea region, Financial Times reports.
“Poland consistently supports the territorial integrity and European and Atlantic ambitions of Georgia”, Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz said today. Minister Czaputowicz touched on his ministry's foreign policy tasks for 2019 at the Sejm, in which Georgia figures as “a key area.”
Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakharia says that the ministry and NATO will cooperate more actively in Black Sea security, as Georgia has no naval forces and the ministry is responsible for the coast’s protection.
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who served as the commanding general of the United States Army Europe said in an interview with Europe Time he would like to see the USA increase its infrastructure in Georgia, especially to support rotational forces and strategic air lift regarding the Karabakh conflict and the deployment of Russian peacekeepers in the region.