The NATO Military Committee, led by Air Force Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, will pay a visit to Georgia on March 27-28 to hold a series of meeting dedicated to cooperation between the alliance and Tbilisi, the Georgian Defense Ministry said on Monday
TBILISI (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 25th March, 2019) The NATO Military Committee, led by Air Force Chief Marshal Stuart Peach, will pay a visit to Georgia on March 27-28 to hold a series of meeting dedicated to cooperation between the alliance and Tbilisi, the Georgian Defense Ministry said on Monday."The NATO Military Committee and its Chairman, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach will be in Tbilisi, Georgia on 27 and 28 March 2019 ... As a show of support to its long-time partner, the NATO Military Committee will hold a meeting in the NATO-Georgia format," the ministry said in a statement.
During the bilateral meeting, the NATO Committee will be briefed by the Georgian defense officials on the regional security situation as well as the implementation of the Substantial NATO-Georgia Package and ongoing reforms in the country, according to the ministry.
"On the 28th of March, the NATO Military Committee will head to the Vaziani Military Base to receive a briefing from the Combat Training Centre and visit the Georgia Defence Readiness Programme, a bilateral programme designed, by the US, to improve Georgian troops' combat readiness and develop a self-sustaining institutional capacity to man, train and equip their national missions," the statement read.
The NATO Committee will also observe the NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019 on Thursday.
On Sunday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg started his two-day visit to Georgia on the occasion of the NATO-Georgia Exercise 2019, which kicked off in Georgia on March 18. On Monday, Stoltenberg held a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze.
