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By Jamila Babayeva

A bilateral working group meeting was held in Washington as part of the U.S. - Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported.

Officials from Georgia and the U.S. took part in the section on security issues.

First Deputy Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani (Co-Chair), Deputy Defence Minister Mikheil Darchiashvili (Co-Chair), Georgia's Ambassador to the U.S. Archil Gegeshidze, Deputy State Minister for Integration in European and Euro-Atlantic Structures David Dondua, Director of the Foreign Ministry's Department of the Americas David Chochua and other officials participated at the meeting from the Georgian side.

From the U.S. side Second Deputy Defence Secretary Evelyn Farkas (Co-Chair), the Second Deputy Secretary of State Greg Kausner (Co-Chair), Acting Second Deputy Secretary of State Marc Pomersheim, Adviser on Export Control and Border Security David Froman and others took part at the meeting.

The U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership was signed in Washington, on January 9, 2009.