Tbilisi. On February 26, U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry,
will host Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and convene the fourth
plenary session of the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission at the
U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of State reports.
According to the statement, the Strategic
Partnership Commission is the primary mechanism for organizing and prioritizing
the broad and deepening cooperation between the United States and Georgia. It
focuses on key areas of our bilateral relationship, including: democracy;
defense and security; economic, trade, and energy issues; and people-to-people
and cultural exchanges. The upcoming
plenary session will provide direction and objectives for the four bilateral
working groups that will meet during the course of the year.
The U.S. delegation will include senior
officials from the Department of State, Department of Defense, Departments of
Commerce, Justice, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Georgian delegation will include senior
representatives from the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of
Defense, Ministry of Justice, and Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development.
The U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic
Partnership convened its first meeting in Washington, D.C. on June 22, 2009.
Senior-level American and Georgian policy-makers have led subsequent meetings
of each of the working groups to review commitments, update activities, and
establish future objectives.