France to donate equipment worth 1 mln GEL to Sachkhere Mountain Training School
In 2010, within the framework of NATO-Georgia cooperation, Sachkhere Mountain Training School was qualified as a Partnership for Peace Training and Education Centre. Photo: The Ministry of Defence of Georgia.
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The French Ministry of Armed Forces will donate equipment worth 1 million GEL to Sachkhere Mountain Training School located in the western part of Georgia, reports the Ministry of Defense of Georgia.
The document was signed today by Danny Pith, the Defense Attache Lieutenant-Colonel of France and Ioseb Nikoleishvili, Head of the Strategic Planning Department of the Georgian Defense Forces.
The High Mountain Group Leader Course, involving Georgian and French servicemen, has ended today at the Sachkhere Mountain Training School. Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Garibashvili and French Ambassador to Georgia Diego Colas have attended the closing ceremony.
Great conclusion to a great month in ???????????????? #defense coop :
— Diégo Colas (@ColasDiego) October 4, 2020
➡️ one month joint training of #mountaintroops
➡️????????participation in #NoblePartner exercise
➡️ seminar on NATO compatible #airdefense
➡️ deployment of new ???????? troops alongside ours in CAR
And all the normal stuff. https://t.co/OXbdad0rNu
Garibashvili congratulated the Georgian and French servicemen on the successful completion of the course and thanked the French side for its support in the development of the school.
Garibashvili noted that the school is a symbol of Georgian-French friendship and successful military cooperation.
The High Mountain Group Leader Course was an unprecedented training for the Georgian and French servicemen, as it was conducted for the first time under the leadership of the Georgian side and also, for the first time in the history of French mining military, French servicemen were trained in another country”, said Garibashvili
In 2010, within the framework of NATO-Georgia cooperation, Sachkhere Mountain Training School was qualified as a Partnership for Peace Training and Education Centre.
The school is located near the town of Sachkhere in the west of the country.
Georgian service members are training on slopes of winter resort Gudauri along with their counterparts from the South Caucasus and eastern Europe to develop survival and rescue skills in the mountains.
Twelve soldiers from NATO and partner countries are undergoıng exercises on how to overcome obstacles on snowy landscapes in Georgia’s Gudauri resort, in the country’s east.
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.
A group of Georgian and American servicemembers have completed a joint course for mountain training in Georgia and received their certificates on Sunday, the Defence Ministry announced.