NATO defence ministers to discuss security situation and reforms in Georgia
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NATO defence ministers and high-ranking Georgian officials are preparing for a NATO-Georgia Commission meeting scheduled for tomorrow in Brussels.
Support for Georgia’s territorial integrity and Euro-Atlantic aspirations has been voiced in a statement on NATO’s website published in the runup to the meeting.
"NATO remains strongly committed to helping Georgia improve its defence capabilities and advance on its path towards NATO membership”, the website read.
Defence ministers of NATO began preparations with two-days of talks in Brussels today, which will focus on ensuring NATO’s strength and flexibility in the face of evolving challenges.
This will be followed by the NATO-Georgia Commission meeting tomorrow, where ministers will assess the security situation in Georgia and review the government’s ongoing reforms.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria is already in Brussels, where he has been holding bilateral meetings in anticipation of tomorrow’s Commission meeting.
Izoria will also hold bilateral meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, US Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Kenneth Handelman and defence ministers of Turkey, the United Kingdom and Latvia.
Top US commander in Afghanistan Army General John Nicholson thanked Georgia’s contribution to military efforts in Afghanistan yesterday as a non-NATO member state.
Georgia’s Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze says that 2017 will be a very active year for deepening NATO-Georgia relations.
Foreign diplomats accredited to Georgia are supporting the reforms being carried out at the Defence Ministry.
Georgia’s State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Viktor Dolidze met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels today.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria met with his Romanian and Lithuanian counterparts ahead of the NATO-Georgia Commission meeting scheduled for later today.
A meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission on the ministerial defense level has just come to a conclusion in Brussels, where Georgia’s security situation was reviewed and discussed at length.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria summarised yesterday’s NATO-Georgia Commission meeting as "very successful”.
A high-ranking NATO delegation headed by the chairman of its Military Committee is on an official visit to Georgia to discuss cooperation between the country and the alliance.