Georgian President in Washington for Nuclear Security Summit

Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili is visiting Washington to participate in the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, which is opening on March 31.

This is the fourth such summit, which was inaugurated by President Barack Obama in 2010. Georgia was participant of all the previous summits as well. In the first two summits the Georgian delegation was led by then President Mikheil Saakashvili in 2010 and 2012; then PM Irakli Garibashvili participated in the nuclear security summit in 2014 in The Hague.

In late December, 2015 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) helped ship out 1.83 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Georgia. HEU was removed from the Tbilisi State University’s Andronikashvili Institute of Physics and repatriated back to Russia.

In January the Georgian State Security Service reported about the arrest of three men accused of trying to sell radioactive substance Cesium-137.