NATO-Georgia Substantial Package:
The Netherlands supports Georgia implement support package
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The Kingdom of Netherlands has vowed to support Georgia implement several projects within the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)-Georgia Substantial Package, which aimed to strengthen Georgia’s defensive capabilities and bring the country closer to NATO.
As well as providing tangible support for Georgia to implement certain aspects of the support package, the Netherlands Embassy also promised to allocate funds for a new Defence Institution Building School in Georgia.
This agreement came after yesterday’s meeting between Ambassador of the Netherlands to Georgia Johannes Douma with Georgia’s Deputy Foreign Minister David Dondua at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tbilisi.
The NATO-Georgia Substantial Package is a set of measures and initiatives aimed at strengthening Georgia’s defence capabilities and developing closer security cooperation and interoperability with NATO members.
The support package was adopted at the NATO Wales Summit in 2014.
The package outlined extra support for Georgia in 13 different areas of the defence and security-related sectors including strategic level advice and liaison, defence capacity building and training activities, multi-national exercises and enhanced interoperability opportunities with NATO members.
NATO has decided to publically release an introduction to the Substantial NATO-GEORGIA Package, says Georgia’s Embassy in the United States of America. On the Embassy's official webpage the first three points of the the introduction to the document were published.
Georgia’s relationship with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the county’s integration into the Alliance was the focus of an official meeting between Georgian and NATO high officials in Belgium, Brussels.
"I call on Russia to reverse its recognition of the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia as independent states,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the NATO-Georgia Commission meeting in Brussels today.
Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg says Georgia is one of NATO’s closest partners and the Alliance is ready to offer continued support for the country.
Georgia‘s capital of Tbilisi will host the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (NATO PA) this year.
Bilateral relations between Georgia and the Netherlands are strong and have acquired new dimensions over the years, says the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs.