Georgian Ministry of Defense
August 23, 2022

An information briefing was held in Armihall in connection with the start of the multinational training “Worthy Partner 2022”

Georgia will host the multinational exercise “Worthy Partner” for the sixth time. An information briefing related to the start of military exercises was held at the Ministry of Defense’s Armihall….

To attend the briefing, the Commander of the Defense Forces, Major General Giorgi Matiashvili, his deputies, the deputies of the Minister of Defense, the defense attachés of the countries participating in the exercise and the foreign experts of the main NATO group gathered in Armihol.

The purpose of “Worthy Partner 2022” is to increase the readiness and interoperability between Georgia, the USA, regional partners and allied countries…in the Black Sea region.

This year, for the first time in the history of the training, representatives of the armed forces of Japan and Sweden will take part. More than 2,400 military personnel are involved in the multinational exercise. The participants of this year’s multinational exercises are: Georgia, USA, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Greece, Great Britain, Turkey, Slovakia, Norway, Hungary, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Poland, Japan, [the] Lithuania-Poland-Ukraine Multinational Brigade and the Swedish Armed Forces.