NATO office to monitor military reform in Georgia

NATO office to monitor military reform in Georgia

Interfax-AVN military news agency web site, Moscow
4 Feb 05

Excerpt from report in English by Russian news agency Interfax-AVN web
site

Tbilisi, 4 February: Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Okruashvili held
a meeting today with Robert Simmons, the NATO secretary-general’s
special representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, and
Romualdas Razuks, NATO liaison officer in Transcaucasia.

“The meeting addressed Georgia-NATO integration in the light of the
Individual Partnership Action Plan approved in autumn last year,” a
source in the Georgian Defence Ministry told Interfax-Military News
Agency.

“It was decided that the Defence Ministry headquarters will host an
office of the NATO liaison officer for monitoring the reforms in
Georgia’s military sphere,” the source said. Razuks will also
supervise Azerbaijan and Armenia, he added. [Passage omitted]