Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday discussed “strategic partnership” and “dynamically developing relations” with the United Kingdom while hosting Sir Philip Robert Barton, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK.
The meeting at the PM’s Tbilisi office also reviewed the Wardrop Strategic Dialogue format between Georgia and the UK that covers the partnership cooperation between the two states and ways of further strengthening them, the Government Administration said.
Garibashvili thanked the visiting official for his Government's ”firm support” for Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and its non-recognition policy of the Russian-occupied regions of the country, as well as for its “important contribution” to strengthening its state institutions.
The officials also reviewed security challenges sparked by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.