EU officials discuss crisis management in Georgia

The Prime Minister of Georgia has met with a leading EU crisis response official to discuss ways to reduce possible crisis in Georgia and how to appropriately act should a major crisis occur.

Georgian leader Irakli Garibahsvili met with the Managing Director of the Crisis Response Department in the European External Action Service (EEAS) today.

The Prime Minister’s press office said Garibashvili and Agostino Miozzo discussed issues of operational coordination and ways to reduce crisis situations.

The officials stressed the EU Crisis Response Department played a key role in security policy, as it was a permanent body that provided worldwide monitoring and information about developments throughout the world 24 hours a day.

The EU Crisis Response system coped with consequences caused by armed conflicts, technological incidents as well as man-made and natural disasters.

Prime Minister Garibashvili said cooperation with this department would hugely assist Georgia in terms of the country’s crisis management.

Today’s meeting was also attended by deputy head of the Crisis Response Department Stavros Petropoulos, the head of the EU Delegation to Georgia Philip Dimitrov and Secretary of Georgian State Security and Crisis Management Council Mindia Janelidze.