On Monday, April 2, 2018 the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy, Charge’ d’affairs’ (CDA) of America Elizabeth H. Rood visited the American Studies students and professors of the Faculty of
Education and Humanities at the International Black Sea University.

Elizabeth Rood discussed the current state of U.S.- Georgia relations and answer their questions.

On December 31, 2018, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Georgia held the briefing entitled “Turkmenistan - is the heart of the Great Silk Road. XXI century global transport diplomacy initiated by Turkmenistan”.

The briefing was attended by the Head of media holding “Akhali Sakartvelo”, the honored journalist of Georgia, political scientist Mr. B.Nachkebia, Editor of a newspaper ”Resonance” Mr. A.Gvimradze, Editor of the international magazine “Geo Traveler” Mr. N.Iloshvili, General Director of “Georgian Business Week” Mr. V.Miroshnichenko, Director of the “News Day Georgia” news agency Mr. A.Otinashvili, Editor of a newspaper “Free Georgia” Ms. M.Muradova, and other representatives of Georgian media.

In his speech, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkmenistan in Georgia D.Muratov noted that building new roads and railways, seaports and bridges, Turkmenistan revives the Great Silk Road in the third millennium. He also stressed that 2018 is held under the motto “Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road”.

The participants were informed of the success of the Turkmenistan’s transport diplomacy. The Ambassador also underlined that unanimous adoption of the new UN resolution "Strengthening the links between all modes of transport to achieve the Sustainable Development goals" is another confirmation of growing authority of Turkmenistan in the world arena, dynamic character of the dialogue with the UN and high trust of the UN that sees Turkmenistan as a reliable and responsible partner.

Taking active position in consolidation of common efforts in this direction including in the UN and other competent international organizations’ format, neutral Turkmenistan initiates and successfully implements large infrastructural projects together with foreign partners making considerable input to the formation of combined transport infrastructure in regional and global scale.

At the end of the briefing, representatives of the Georgian media  expressed their gratitude to the Embassy of Turkmenistan and personally to the Ambassador of Turkmenistan in Georgia D.Muratov for organizing and conducting the briefing and noted that initiating important proposals, including on the implementation of major projects in the transport and communication sphere, Turkmenistan makes its significant contribution to the formation of the architecture of the new geo-economic space.

The Media Tour of Georgian Journalists in China organized by the Embassy of China continues. The team is leaded by the Director of News Agency Newsday.ge and media group Starvision, Avtandil Otinashvili.
The journalists moved to Shanghai from Beijing. They were hosted by City Hall’s International Relations Department. The sides discussed issues of bilateral relations.
In the frames of meeting in Huawei office the local officials presented innovations of the brand. The General Producer of Starvision Egor Kuroptev discussed the issue of China’s Culture popularization and media relations. The Media Tour which will end at August, 9, is attended by the General Producer of Starvision Egor Kuroptev, the Director of news agensy, newsday.ge Avtandil Otinashvili, the representatives of Radio Jako, Rustavi 2, Imedi TV, Maestro, 1TV, Rezonansi, Biznes Team and Dro. The aim of the tour-China is deepening relationship between the countries. 

U.S. Embassy congratulated Georgia with SVETITSKHOVLOBA Day on it's Facebook Page.

"Happy Svetiskhovloba! Here's my favorite shot of the church, taken last winter. Whenever I have a visitor come from the U.S. I take them there," - is said in the post.