Center of combat training of the Armed Forces of Georgia opens 18 May Vaziani (Tbilisi suburb), reports TASS message Minister of Defense Levan Isora.
Two days later, in the opening ceremony of the Vaziani military training center of Georgian Armed Forces, on this basis to start implementation of the Georgian Defense Preparedness Program, whereby in 2018-2020 Years United States will help Georgia in training military personnel to nine battalions of the Armed Forces of the country, the minister said at a conference on security in the South Caucasus in Tbilisi.
For the first time a project of creation of such a center was announced in February, 2017 of the year. Then the country's Defense Ministry reported, that "in the course of which took place in Germany at the training base of the US Armed Forces in Hohenfels Isora meeting with the US commander of ground forces in Europe by Ben Hodges and chief Antonio base Auguto announced plans to create a center in Georgia, Similar actions in Hohenfels ".
earlier it was reported, that in the framework program 2018-2020 Tbilisi, Washington will help prepare troops of 9 battalions.
As I noted Izoria, "Cooperation program for the first time focused on improving defense capabilities Georgia, not only to prepare Georgian troops for participation in international peacekeeping operations ".
