On March 16, 2018 within the framework of the project "Further Development of Liaison Officers Point of the State Border Guard in Georgia and Belarus (1st phase)" Colonel Edmunds Ļuļs, State Border Guard Liaison Officer in Georgia, and Captain Renāts Vecelis, State Border Guard Liaison Officer (expert), held a reporting meeting in the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Georgia (Tbilisi) on the activities of the Liaison Officers Point in Georgia in 2017.
The reporting meeting was attended by Madara Siliņa, Acting Head of the Embassy and the delegation of the State Border Guard - Colonel Juris Martukāns, Deputy Chief of the State Border Guard (Chief of the Central Board), and Colonel Māris Domiņš, Chief of the International Cooperation and Protocol Division of the Central Board of the State Border Guard; Immigration Liaison Officers accredited in France, Greece and Sweden; Consuls of the Consular Departments of the Embassies of Lithuania and Estonia as well as representatives of the Patrol Police Department, the Border Police and Migration Department of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Georgia.
During the reporting meeting, the State Border Guard Liaison Officers provided information regarding the progress made in 2017, as well as told of the cases when liaison officers detected illegal migration from Georgia to the European Union.
The guests highly appreciated the level of cooperation of the State Border Guard Liaison Officers with their cooperation partners and expressed regret regarding the closure of the Liaison Officers Point of the State Border Guard in Georgia on March 31, 2018.
At the end of the reporting meeting Colonel Levan Matchavariani, Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department of the Ministry of the Interior of Georgia, on the basis of the order on the support provided for the alleviation of illegal migration, signed by the First Deputy of the Minister of the Interior of Georgia, presented the Medal of the Ministry of the Interior "For Special Services" to the State Border Guard Liaison Officers.
Representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia and the Georgian Cooperation Institutions were rewarded for the support provided to the State Border Guard Liaison Officers.
Within the framework of the visit Colonel Juris Martukāns, Deputy Chief of the State Border Guard (Chief of the Central Board), met with Teimuraz Kekelidze, Chief of the Border Police of the Ministry of the Interior of Georgia, Mikheil Chikvareed, Deputy Chief of the Migration Department of the Ministry of the Interior of Georgia, Erik Hoeeg, Head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM) as well as with the State Border Guard contingent participating in the EUMM mission.
Information prepared by Maris Domins