NATO Secretary General meets family of Georgian victim of 2011 Norway massacre

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has met the family of a Georgian girl killed by Anders Breivik on the Utoya Island in Norway in 2011.

Stoltenberg, NATO’s Norwegian top official who paid his first Georgia visit on August 26 and 27, expressed his desire to meet and offer his condolences to Tamta Liparteliani’s family when he met Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili yesterday. The Georgian official then organised a meeting with the victim's family on the same day.

"I have read much about your daughter,” the NATO Secretary General told Liparteliani’s parents.

"In Norway we opened a special place where we can pay tribute to the victims including your daughter. Thank you for meeting and enabling me to personally offer my condolences.”

Lipatreliani, a 23-year-old Georgian student who was at the youth camp in Utoya, was one of the 77 victims of the 2011 Norway attacks.

The body of Georgian student Tamta Liparteliani was found on the bottom of the lake with two gunshot wounds in the back. 

On July 22, 2011, lone gunman Breivik emerged from a western Norwegian suburb to commit Norway’s deadliest terrorist atrocity and one of the worst terrorist attacks in Europe since World War II.

The massacre started with an explosion in Oslo and finished with the slaughter of dozens of teenagers at a youth camp on Utoya. The final death toll was 77.