Defence

Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Curtis Scaparrotti, met in Baku on Wednesday to discuss European and global security issues.

NATO Ministers are meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels on 4-5 December.

Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said: "On any platform or under any condition, Turkey supports the territorial and boundary integrity of Georgia and Azerbaijan. We strongly stress that at every platform."

"The Ukrainian Crisis of 2014 heightened Allied concerns about a resurgent and assertive Russia. It underlined the need to be able to rapidly and confidently reinforce a threatened Ally on the periphery of NATO territory, to deter a potential threat and, should deterrence fail, to defend an Ally from an attack"

Both sides stressed the importance of the NATO parliamentary assembly in the development of Azerbaijan-NATO relations.

The NATO-Georgia Commission met at NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (5 September 2018) to discuss the situation on the ground in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and ongoing efforts to pursue peace.

During the visit Germany and Georgia signed development cooperation deals worth over €193 million ($223 million), including projects to improve drinking water and sewage systems and to build a gas storage facility.

The 13-nation military exercise "Noble Partner 2018" kicked off in Georgia's Vaziani military base on Wednesday (1 August) with the participation of over 3,000 soldiers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Britain, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States.

Georgia has once more received assurances of support for its reforms and for its European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations during prime minister Mamuka Bakhtadze's first visit to Brussels.