NATO Secretary General will visit Georgia tomorrow
During the visit Jens Stoltenberg will meet with Georgian leaders and attend NATO-Georgia Exercise. Photo: NATO
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The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will travel to Tbilisi on March 24-25.
Stoltenberg will meet with President Salome Zurabishvili, Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze and other high-level officials.
#NATO Secretary General, @jensstoltenberg will travel to Tbilisi ???????? on 24-25 March. He will have meetings with President @Zourabichvili_S, PM @BakhtadzeMamuka and other high level officials.
— Piers Cazalet (@NATODepSpox) March 22, 2019
Info for media: https://t.co/0U910cIt8X pic.twitter.com/jNRYjeF8Jz
The Secretary General will also visit the NATO-Georgia Joint Training and Evaluation Centre (JTEC) together with the Minister of Defence Levan Izoria, where he will receive a briefing on the ongoing NATO-Georgia Exercise.
With #NATOGEOEX19, Georgian military officers become more interoperable with #NATO. The exercise is training officers involved in military decision-making to plan and lead NATO operations from start to finish, according to NATO standards. https://t.co/5u8SBquFsU pic.twitter.com/PD4VT8FfvG
— NATO ACT (@NATO_ACT) March 22, 2019
Read more about the NATO-Georgia Exercise here.
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