Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Joint NATO-Georgian training facility inaugurated near Tbilisi

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Photo: Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General; Tina Khidasheli, Minister of Defense of Georgia, and Irakli Garibashvili, PM, unveiling the Joint Training and Evaluation Centre (nato.int)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg Thursday unveiled new Joint Training and Evaluation Centre in Georgia during his first visit to the country.

The centre is located inside the functioning military facility at Krtsanisi settlement,

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Two Georgians detained on disputed South Ossetia border

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About a hundred Georgians are detained every year for crossing the disputed border. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards on Tuesday detained two Georgian citizens who were out attending cattle in Bershueti, which borders with the breakaway region South Ossetia.

The detainees are Muraz Javakhishvili (75) and Ivane Sekhniashvili (41).

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Boris Iarochevitch: Georgia's on track

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“For me as a part of the community here for four years, I think, it is very important for Georgia to do more in the field of environment, because I see that the situation in Tbilisi is very bad in terms of air pollution” (DF Watch)

“I think that Georgia is almost there when it comes to fulfilling the visa liberalization action plan. Now it is up to the member states of the EU to decide. I think that people in Georgia deserve visa-free regime. I see no reason now to delay it further,” says Boris Iarochevitch, Deputy Head of Delegation of the European Union since 2011, said.

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