H.E. David Dondua, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
The visit of the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. David Dondua to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
On November 28-29, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, H.E. David Dondua visited Netherlands. In the framework of the visit, David Dondua met with the deputy Director of Political Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, Mr. Pieter Jan Kleiweg de Zwaan.
During the meeting, the sides discussed ongoing and future cooperation between the Netherlands and Georgia, actual issues related to Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, the NATO-Georgia cooperation dynamics, the possibility of the meeting between Foreign Affairs Ministers in the framework of Nato-Georgia Commission and the agenda of the 2018 NATO Summit. The Georgian side provided the updated information on the recent illegal developments in Georgia’s occupied territories. The discussion also touched upon Russian policy towards the occupation and ethnic cleaning.
Mr David Dondua also met with the Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representative of the States General, Ms. Pia Dijkstra and representatives of the committee. The sides discussed Georgian-Russian conflict, grave security situation and violation of human rights in occupied regions. Special attention was paid to the Russia’s policy towards the occupation and continuous discrimination of ethnic Georgians in the occupied territories.
Parties also discussed the issues related to installation of barbed wire fences and artificial barriers along the occupation line. Special attention was paid to the need of active involvement of the international society and its role to create an opportunity for a peaceful resolution of the conflict. Sides also discussed issues related to NATO-Georgia cooperation.
On November 28, Embassy of Georgia and the “Coalition for Defence” at the Embassy of Georgia organized a public conference “The wider Black Sea region in the context of Euro-Atlantic security – the view from Georgia“.
The Keynote speakers were the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia H.E. David Dondua and Lt .Colonel (ret) Victor Remouchamps. The conference was attended by the representatives from the Netherlands government, diplomatic missions accredited to The Hague, International and local Organizations and Media representatives.
On November 29, Embassy of Georgia and the Clingendael Institute organized a round table, where the Deputy Minister had the opportunity to update Dutch researchers and think-tanks on Georgia and the challenges in the region. Clingendael senior visiting fellow Mr. Jan Marinus Wiersma moderated the event and Q&A session.
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Pictures by the Embassy of Georgia in The Hague.
