Defence Minister: Georgia to keep contributing to NATO Resolute Support mission
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Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria has pledged further support for NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan.
Izoria spoke at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Resolute Support operational partner nations at the level of Defence Ministers. The event was held in Brussels and was opened by Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
In his speech Izoria focused on ensuring international security and stability and stressed the role of Georgia as a strategic partner of NATO.
"A total of 870 Georgian servicemen are serving in Afghanistan. We will maintain this amount of our contribution in the future in order to ensure international security together with our partners”, Izoria said.
While in Brussels, Izoria held bilateral meetings with his Swedish, Finnish and Lithuanian counterparts. After the meetings the officials announced that the Swedish and Finnish Defence Ministers will pay a visit to Georgia in September while Izoria will visit Lithuania by the end of September.
Georgia’s Minister of Defence Levan Izoria, who is now paying an official visit in Germany, has stressed Georgia is firm in its position to contribute to international peace and security through active participation in foreign missions in the future.
German diplomats have awarded today Georgian captain Levan Shubitidze with the bronze Bundeswehr Medal Of Honour for successfully completing the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan.
Schoolchildren in eastern Afghanistan’s Bagh-eAlam village received presents from Georgian peacekeeping troops, who met the local kids earlier today in their first humanitarian mission.
Georgian children from the capital of Tbilisi and other towns in Georgia sent letters of support to soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
A Basic Mountain Training Summer Course has launched at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School in the western part of Georgia in the framework of NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) Program.
Georgian troops serving in the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan are honing their skills by training personnel in evacuation and security actions.
Nine Georgian infantry battalions will undergo 3-year exercises together with American instructors starting in March of 2018, says Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria.
The first ever Georgian military dictionary has been unveiled at the Georgian Defense Ministry’s army hall today.The dictionary gives brief overview of various military issues including the structural and systemic categories, definitions of strategies and tactics, modern terms and other field-related issues.
One Georgian soldier was killed and three injured in an attack during joint motorised patrolling on Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, reports Georgia’s Defence Ministry.
A plane carrying the body of a Georgian soldier Mdinari Bebiashvili has touched down on Georgian soil. Bebiashvili’s body was met by members of his family and Georgian leaders at Tbilisi International Airport this afternoon.
Defence ministers of the Train Advise Assist Command – North, which provides assistance to Afghan national defence in the frame of the NATO Resolute Support Mission (RSM), have met in Brussels to discuss regional challenges and make plans for future peace activities.
Georgia’s Defencxe Ministry has reported that three Georgian soldiers have received light wounds when patrolling the perimeter near the Bagram airfield in Afghanistan.
Georgian soldiers of the 3rd infantry brigade have conducted a coordinative-situational training in Mazar-i-Sharif military base, Afghanistan, within the NATO peacekeeping Resolute Support Mission.
Georgia’s newly appointed Minister of Defense Irakli Garibashvili has announced he will visit Afghanistan to meet with Georgian peacekeepers and learn about their everyday life. Gharibashvili made an online address with Georgian peacekeepers deployed on the Afghan and African continents and pledged his support to them at the military command centre.