Belarus President to Visit Georgia
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, will pay an official visit to Georgia this week, according to the Georgian Foreign Ministry.
During the visit, which will be the first one of the Belarus President to Georgia, Lukashenko will meet his Georgian counterpart Giorgi Margvelashvili; PM Irakli Garibashvili, as well as head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II, on April 23.
On April 24 Lukashenko will travel to the Black Sea resort and port town of Batumi.
When commenting on his planned visit to Georgia, Lukashenko said in February: “We, together with the Georgian leadership, were delaying and delaying it [visit] all the time, but now we decided that we have to meet this year and seriously talk about bilateral relations with our close people.”
