U.S. Congressional Staff Visits Georgia

A group of U.S. congressional staff visit Georgia this week meeting with senior officials and opposition representatives.

The group, according to the Georgian Parliament’s press office, includes assistants to three members of Congressional Georgia Caucus: Democratic Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz; Republican Congressman Bill Schuster and Republican Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart; as well as aides to Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan; Republican Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier.

“Occupation of the Georgian territories by Russia and the need to establish this term -‘occupation’ – in official documents of the United States and EU was discussed; NATO integration issue was also discussed… as well as bilateral cooperation,” Giorgi Baramidze, the Georgian state minister for Euro-Atlantic integration, said after meeting with the delegation.

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