Ministry of Defence of Georgia
March 27, 2014
NATO Positively Evaluates Georgia’s Defence Reforms
A NATO assessment team is on a four-day official visit at the Ministry of Defence of Georgia. Today, Deputy Defence Minister Mikheil Darchiashvili held a tête-à-tête meeting with the Director of Force Planning, NATO Defence Policy and Planning Directorate Frank Boland.
The sides discussed the implemented and ongoing defence reforms in the Georgian defence sector. NATO assessment team gave a positive evaluation to implementation of commitments undertaken in the framework of Planning and Review Process (PARP). The sides focused on Georgia’s contribution to international mission in Afghanistan and post-ISAF mission, also participation in NATO Response Force in 2015.
“NATO allies pay great attention to progress achieved by the aspirant countries, especially in defence sphere before the upcoming NATO Summit to be held in Wales in autumn. We discussed the ongoing defence reforms in Georgia with NATO experts. We also had a comprehensive discussion of Georgia’s contribution to NATO-led international operation in Afghanistan and our future plans in this regard. The main topics of the meeting were the programs and mechanisms of cooperation with the Alliance. These mechanisms are used as tools to streamline the ongoing processes in the defence system. We are doing our best to make these programs interoperable with our plans that is very positively assessed by NATO. The progress achieved by the Defence Ministry is another step forward aimed at strengthening the defence capabilities of Georgia and increasing interoperability with NATO that will be considered at NATO Summit in autumn,” declared Mikheil Darchiashvili.
The visit aims at reviewing and updating existing Partnership Goals (PGs) of the Planning and Review Process (PARP) in full compliance with the defence priorities and SDR recommendations. Generally, the PARP itself represents a two-year process and the PGs are reviewed once in two years. An assessment of the progress in achieving these goals is conducted annually.
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