Defence ministers of Georgia, Poland, Black Sea coastal states discuss war in Ukraine
The officials reviewed steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis and deliver aid to Ukraine amid the war. Photo: Ministry of Defence of Turkey
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Defence ministers from the Black Sea coastal countries and Poland on Thursday discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine via a video call, the Turkish Defence Ministry said.
Presence of mined areas in the Black Sea in the wake of the conflict, and the general security in the region, were discussed following an invitation by Turkish authorities, which Ankara said led to “very efficient” talks.
Aside from the mines, the importance of cooperation in the Black Sea for peace, calm and stability was emphasised,” the Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said after the meeting.
The officials reviewed steps to alleviate the humanitarian crisis and deliver aid to Ukraine amid the war.
Turkish military diving teams have so far detonated three separate floating naval mines in the Black Sea, while Romania has also defused a stray mine in its waters since the start of the conflict in Ukraine.
The issue of Georgia has never been so relevant in NATO, the Georgian Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze said on Wednesday.
It is important to step up cooperation with NATO partner countries, including Georgia, the Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said on Thursday ahead of the NATO ministers meeting.
Georgia has a “very strong stance” on supporting Ukraine, expressed at all international organisations, Maka Bochorishvili, the Chairwoman of the Georgian Parliament’s European Union Integration Committee, said on Thursday.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said "stepping up" support for the Alliance partners “under Russian pressure,” including Georgia, would be discussed at the meeting of Foreign Ministers on April 6 and 7.
Relations between Georgia and Turkey were discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili and the Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
The prospects of Georgia's accession to the European Union and Georgian-Polish bilateral relations were discussed by Levan Ioseliani, the Deputy Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Alexander Elisashvili, the Chairman of the opposition Citizens political group, and Mariusz Maszkiewicz, the Polish Ambassador to Georgia on Wednesday.
Georgian police attaches, assigned to European countries of Poland and Spain, on Sunday were awarded for their “successful activities", the interior ministry announced.