USAID Assistant Administrator for Europe, Eurasia to feature in Tbilisi Silk Road Forum
Erin Elizabeth McKee, the United States Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia. Photo from Imedi TV
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Erin Elizabeth McKee, the United States Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, will head the US delegation at the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum, set to run in the Georgian capital between Thursday and Friday.
The US Embassy in Georgia on Wednesday said McKee would advance the US partnership with Georgia as the country “solidified itself” as a key Euro-Atlantic trade, transport, logistics, and energy hub.
As part of her visit to Georgia, McKee will meet with Georgian Government officials to reaffirm the USAID’s three-decade-long “strategic partnership” with the state.
While here, she will launch USAID’s new Educating the Future Programme, a new partnership between USAID and Georgia’s Ministry of Education and Science to strengthen teacher training. Assistant Administrator McKee will also meet with civil society leaders, journalists, educators, and members of the business community”, the Embassy said.
High-ranking representatives of the governments of European and Asian countries, vice-prime ministers and ministers of economic profile will participate in panel sessions of the Forum. Representatives of the diplomatic corps and international bodies, including financial and donor organisations, will also feature.
We are excited that representatives from nine U.S. companies are here to explore investment opportunities in Georgia. They will be participating in the Tbilisi Silk Road Forum with a particular interest in infrastructure, technology, design and construction, and energy sectors.… pic.twitter.com/r8EcwRFUeY
— U.S. Embassy Tbilisi (@usingeo) October 25, 2023
Up to 2,000 delegates from 60 countries will attend the Forum to discuss global economic challenges, ways to solve them, and aspects and perspectives of cooperation for connectivity.
The Ministry of Economy said 10 sessions would be hosted on the first day of the Forum, with day two used for discussion of Georgia's investment opportunities and B2B meetings.
Founded by Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the first edition of the Forum was hosted in Tbilisi in 2015.
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Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on Wednesday said the country’s capital Tbilisi was “ready” to host the fourth edition of Tbilisi Silk Forum “with honour”.
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Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on Thursday said the interest shown for this year’s Tbilisi Silk Road Forum, an event hosting more than 2,000 delegates and guests from up to 60 foreign states, was “extremely high” and added the event’s attraction indicated Georgia’s growing role in the Black Sea region.
The prospects of the existing and future cooperation, including in trade and economics, were reviewed on Thursday by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Erin McKee, the Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia at USAID.
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