US ambassador:‘Georgia not only committed to supporting NATO, it can also train, certify its units for NATO missions’

US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan has attended the certification exercise for the Georgia Deployment Program – Resolute Support Mission (GDP-RSM), conducted by Georgian and American troops, where she stated that Georgia is not only committed to supporting NATO, but that it can train and certify its own defence units for these missions.

Georgia is the largest non-NATO contributor to the Resolute Support mission with 871 soldiers.

The Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan was launched in 2015 and involves more than 16,000 personnel from nearly 40 NATO member and partner countries.

The mission serves to train, advise and assist Afghan defence and security forces and support them through funding.

Thirty-two Georgian soldiers have been killed and dozens injured in NATO-led peace missions in Afghanistan.