Georgian defence minister features in NATO counterparts meeting
Burchuladze will also meet admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the NATO military committee, to review security challenges and questions of strengthening NATO-Georgia compatibility. Photo: MOD of Georgia
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Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze is featuring in a meeting of NATO ministers of defence in Brussels, the Georgian ministry said on Wednesday.
Burchuladze has already held a meeting with secretary general Jens Stoltenberg, and will also attend a meeting of the contact group of Ukraine in the Rammstein format organised by the US department of defence.
The meeting will focus on the current situation in Ukraine, the country's “needs and opportunities”, as well as future prospects and the opportunities of NATO member and non-member states to provide help to it.
Burchuladze will also meet admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the NATO military committee, to review security challenges and questions of strengthening NATO-Georgia compatibility.
MoD Burchuladze is in Brussels ????????. MoD already met w/ @jensstoltenberg . ???????? MoD Burchuladze will attend ???????? Defense Contact Group meeting in Ramstein where countries will discuss situation in Ukraine, current needs & support from #NATO member and partner states. pic.twitter.com/oxbfsjkrWs
— MOD Georgia (@ModGovGe) October 12, 2022
Deepening practical cooperation between the country and the alliance for strengthening the former’s defence capabilities will also be discussed.
The Georgian minister is also scheduled to meet David Cutler, the NATO assistant secretary general for intelligence and security.
Georgia’s main focus remains on reforms to move the country towards NATO membership, the alliance’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
The question of Georgia's accession to NATO and the decision of the 2008 Bucharest Summit on the matter are “in force”, with all alliance member states “unanimous” on the issue, Victor Dolidze, the Head of the Georgian Mission to NATO, said on Thursday.
Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, on Monday stressed that the Georgian authorities saw the guarantee of the country’s security under the NATO “umbrella”.
Nothing will change Georgia’s determination to pursue its path toward the European Union and NATO membership, President Salome Zourabichvili said on Thursday in an interview with the French magazine Marie Claire.
Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze on Wednesday attended a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels, discussing the situation created as a result of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and the country’s needs in combating the ongoing Russian offensives, as well as the security challenges facing the United States’s allies and partners.
Security environment in the Black Sea region, Russia's military aggression in Ukraine and challenges facing Georgia were discussed on Thursday in Brussels in a meeting between the Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze and admiral Rob Bauer, the chair of the NATO military committee.