Georgian Defense Minister Visits Poland, Baltic States, UK

Defense Minister Tina Khidasheli has started a week-long five-country European tour on September 9 as part of the efforts to secure “consolidated European support” for Georgia at the NATO Warsaw summit next year, the Georgian Ministry of Defense said.

Khidasheli will be visiting Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, where she plans meetings with her counterparts; she will visit London on the last leg of her tour, according to the MoD.

“We will discuss measures that should be intensified in frames of bilateral relations on the one hand and on the other to increase possibilities and number of our supporters in the context of the NATO summit,” Khidasheli told journalists at the Tbilisi airport before departure.