US-Georgina Defense Chiefs’ Discussed Military Cooperation

(Tbilisi, May 8, Civil.ge) – Georgian Defense Minister General Lieutenant David Tevzadze met his US counterpart Donald Rumsfeld in Pentagon on May 7.

US-Georgian Defense chiefs discussed details of the US military assistance to Georgia and the implementation of the Georgia Train-and-Equip program [GTEP].

“The thing that we were discussing today was what I explained in some detail, and that is up to a maximum of 150 trainers will train four Georgian battalions for a very specific purpose, and it is a program that we believe will be a useful thing from the standpoint of Georgia,” Donald Rumsfeld stated at the news briefing, Defense Department press service reports.

Davit Tevzadze thanked the US leadership for the assistance and stated that “US decisions help not only Georgia; actually it helps for stability of the region itself.”