Tbilisi’s Rike Park to host American Days
The 3×3 street basketball tournament, named after the famed American former professional basketball player Magic Johnson, will be one of the highlight sports events in the programme of the event during the day. Photo from State 51's Facebook page.
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Three decades of diplomatic ties between Georgia and the United States will be celebrated on Tbilisi’s Rike Park riverside recreational area on Saturday.
Music performances and sports events will be hosted in the area next to river Mtkvari in the downtown throughout the day.
The former will involve Georgian band Pelargonia, psychedelic synth-pop act 4D Monster Lobsters, as well as Killages, Loudspeakers and electronic music performers Tobako Tween and Deme.
Among the sports events, the Georgian basketball federation said the fourth round of the American National Basketball Association’s Legends Cup would be hosted in the park.
The 3×3 street basketball tournament, named after the famed American former professional basketball player Magic Johnson, will be one of the highlight sports events in the programme of the event during the day.
The United States Embassy to Georgia and the international foundation of sports, tourism and youth are the supporters of the event.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and President Salome Zourabichvili, along with US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan, attended a solidarity concert marking the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries on Saturday evening.
The Georgia-US relationship today is “as strong as ever", and our friendship is based on “shared values”, said Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of Georgia, on the celebration of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between two countries.
US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan has delivered a speech in celebration of 30 years of diplomatic relations between Georgia and the US at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia earlier today. Ambassador Degnan reaffirmed that Georgia and the US are "strategic partners," and the US is "very proud" to be assisting Georgia in strengthening democracy.
With a broad range of events planned, America Days began in Zugdidi, western Georgia today and will continue throughout the week in Akhaltsikhe, southern Georgia on June 3, Gori in central Georgia on June 4, and end in capital Tbilisi on June 6.