Georgian police attache awarded with White Cross in Spain
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Spain has praised the fruitful and successful operations of the Georgian police attache and Police Vice-Colonel Shalva Shubladze.
By the order of the Spain’s Internal Minister Juan Ignacio Zaido, Shubladze was awarded with the White Cross of the Kingdom of Spain.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affair announced that Georgia’s and Spain’s Internal Ministries enjoy close and fruitful cooperation.
As reported, after the award ceremony the heads of the National Police of Spain’s Ministry of Internal Affairs hosted the Georgian police attache and other countries’ police representatives at a special reception.
Georgia supports the territorial integrity of Spain and rejects unilateral actions, says Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili. Kvirikashvili took to Twitter to voice his support for the Spanish government.
Georgia’s Ambassador to Spain and Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, has received the status of honorable citizen of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay.
Georgia fully supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain within its internationally recognised borders, says the Georgian Foreign Ministry.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry has released a statement to clarify that no representative office of Georgia’s Russian-occupied region of Tskhinvali has opened in Barcelona. Earlier this week, reports spread in the media that South Ossetia had opened its representation in Barcelona.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has sent a letter to King Philip VI of the Kingdom of Spain and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy expressing Georgia’s strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Spain.
Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has stated they are involved in a large-scale anti-mafia operation in Madrid, Catalonia and several other locations in Spain.
Four Georgian members of a criminal group have been detained in Madrid several days ago with the help of Georgia’s Interior Ministry, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported.
Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs David Zalkaliani has started his official visit to Spain yesterday. He will hold several meetings with the Spanish government officials until January 29.
Cooperation in the field of law enforcement and the importance of further deepening future relations between Georgian and Spanish agencies were in focus of a meeting between Vakhtang Gomelauri, the Georgian Interior Minister and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez in Spain on Tuesday.
Georgian police attaches, assigned to European countries of Poland and Spain, on Sunday were awarded for their “successful activities", the interior ministry announced.
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri and his Spanish counterpart Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Thursday discussed the importance of close and effective cooperation between the countries’ law enforcement agencies at the meeting held in Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi.