U.S.-Georgia Economic Cooperation Talks Planned

The U.S. and Georgian officials will meet in Tbilisi on February 25 to discuss economic cooperation in frames of a charter on strategic partnership, signed between the two countries in January, 2009.

Jose W. Fernandez, the assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs, will be leading the U.S. inter-agency delegation participating in an economic working group meeting.

This working group is one of those four bilateral groups, which are addressing priority areas identified by the U.S-Georgia strategic charter. Security, democracy and people-to-people contacts are three other areas. U.S.-Georgian bilateral working groups on security, democracy and people-to-people contacts held their first meetings in Tbilisi in October, November (2009) and January (2010), respectively.

“During the meeting, the sides will confer about cooperation on a range of economic and business related issues. During the visit, a bilateral agreement establishing a partnership on energy infrastructure expansion will be signed,” the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi said on February 24.

This post is also available in: ქართული (Georgian) Русский (Russian)