NATO, Georgia discuss emerging security challenges in Tbilisi

The cross-cutting nature of emerging security challenges including cyber defence, energy security and terrorism are being discussed with experts from Georgia and further abroad at a special conference in Tbilisi.

Distinguished experts from academic facilities, state institutions and from the private sector, as well as Ambassador of NATO Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Risks are taking part in the conference.

The event - NATO Science for Peace and Security – was opened by Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, Georgia’s State Ministry on European and Euro-Atlantic Integrating Alexi Petriashvili and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of David Zalkaliani.

The conference focused on the interaction of several emerging security challenges, and Minister Petriashvili stressed Georgia’s participation in the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme would be important.

At the conference participants discussed various preventive approaches as well as measures to enhance the resilience of cyber and energy infrastructure against emerging security risks. The group also proposed several research projects as part of the Science for Peace and Security Program.