5th Annual Tbilisi International Conference will be attended by high-ranking guests
5th Annual Tbilisi International Conference will be attended by high-ranking guests

The fifth international conference organized by the McCain Institute and the Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC) will be opened today in Tbilisi.

High-ranking diplomats, international experts and members of the Georgian government will attend a two-day Tbilisi International Conference.

Among the conference participants are: former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen, acting US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip T. Reeker, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevichus, former President of the Republic of Latvia Valdis Zatlers, retired United States Army officer Ben Hodges. Also, international security experts will attend the conference.

The main topics of discussion on a two-day conference are Georgia’s prospects of gaining NATO an EU membership, Russia’s destructive policies and the fight against its misinformation and hybrid war, the Ukrainian conflict, Turkey and the neighbourhood, US foreign policy, Brexit, etc.