“Georgia has been a good partner, and we need to remain vigilant,” said US Ambassador Kelly Degnan remarking on the recent visit of a group of sanctions coordination to Georgia. She said the coordinators thanked the Georgian government for their cooperation in trying to prevent the dual-purpose components “that kill people from showing up on the battlefield.”

“We just had an important visit from both – the US, the UK, and the EU’s sanctions coordinator a couple of weeks ago, discussing this with the Georgian government, thanking the Georgian government for the cooperation we have seen in trying to keep the components that are showing up on the battlefield, killing people in Ukraine.

This is really the main focus of trying the export controls and sanctions, keeping those things that are killing people in Ukraine from getting into Russia and getting into the Russian military, and Georgia has been a good partner in that, and we need to remain vigilant. There are many people who are trying to find workarounds to get these components into Russia, and we look forward to continuing our close cooperation with the Georgian authorities to prevent that from happening through Georgia,” she said.

EU Sanctions Envoy David O’Sullivan, Head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination at the US State Department, Ambassador James O’Brien, and Director General, Economics, Science and Technology at the UK Foreign Office, Kumar Iyer, visited Georgia on June 27.