The first meeting of a group of experts working on energy security was held on the Zoom platform.
The Levan Mikeladze Foundation, in cooperation with the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA), is implementing the project “National Convention of the European Union in Georgia”. The project is funded by SlovakAid and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The main goal of the project is to promote direct, transparent, and open dialogue between the state and civil society, to provide them with opinions and expert feedback in various fields. To achieve a desirable result, three working groups were created in the following areas: energy security, external communications strategy, and youth policy.
To this end, on June 11, was held the first meeting of the energy security working group on Zoom. Field experts, representatives of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development, and non-governmental organizations attended the meeting. The event was opened by Mr. Archil Gegeshidze, Executive Director of the Levan Mikeladze Foundation, and Mr. Peter Brezan, Project Manager of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association.
At the meeting, local and Slovak experts on energy security presented policy papers. Particularly, the papers discussed the essence of the energy security policy in Georgia and the Slovak Republic. Additionally, best the experience and best practice of foreign countries were also discussed.
The meeting was moderated by Ms. Margalita Arabidze, Deputy Head of Energy Reforms and International Relations Department at the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, and Mr. Murman Margvelashvili, Director of the analytical center World Experience for Georgia (WEG) and an energy expert.
The next meetings will assess Georgia's energy security using predetermined indicators and also recommendations to the Ministry of Economic and Sustained Development will be developed.
17-06-2021
