US helps Georgia better protect its state borders
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The United States’ Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is providing $10 million USD to modernise the way Georgia protects its state borders.
Today the DTRA and Georgia’s Border Policy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs signed a cooperation agreement.
Within the agreement, border sections at Kasumlo and Kedi villages will be constructed and managed under Georgia’s Border Policy.
Meanwhile, the state border between Georgia and Armenia will be better equipped with special equipment necessary for observing, watching and monitoring the area. The section will be fully fitted out by March 2017.
Changes to Georgia’s border crossing procedures mean current dated rules and regulations are moving away from the past and closer towards modern, international standards.
The 2017 Budget of the United States, released by President Barack Obama today, includes funding for Georgia and other countries "most targeted by Russian aggression”.
The United States (US) Department of Defence says despite progress jointly achieved to ensure peace at the end of the Cold War, in recent years Russia appeared "intent to erode the principled international order."
United States (US) lawmakers have registered a resolution in Congress that supports Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as the future partnership and closer cooperation between Georgia and the US.
High officials from the United States (US) are in Tbilisi to meet with Georgian authorities and discuss the ways Georgia is progressing in democracy and governance.
Foreign Affairs experts from the United States (US) Congress have passed a resolution in support of Georgia’s territorial integrity.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Giorgi Mgebrishvili along with US Ambassador Ian Kelly opened the Command and Control Center on Georgian-Armenian state border called Sadakhlo.
The U.S. Department of State has released the US Congressional Budget Justification for 2018, where $34.1 million is considered for Georgia.
The United States Congress says President Donald Trump "should call on the Government of the Russian Federation to withdraw all of its forces from the territories of Georgia, Ukraine, and Moldova”.
The United States (US) will assist Georgia with an additional $20 million, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Finance.
Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Mgebrishvili and the US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly have opened a new building ات the #7 Border Sector "Sulda” of the second border police division located in eastern Akhaltsikhe region.