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and participates both individually and collectively in various projects
administered under the patronage of NATO. This also includes Georgia’s
participation in strategic or technical learning initiatives. NATO (headquarters
and Liaison Office), assists Georgian cyberauthorities in performing systematic
and ongoing awareness-raising and training activities throughout Georgia
directed at different target groups. Georgia regularly presents its cybersecurity
achievements and initiatives to the NATO-Georgia Commission and closely
guides itself using the NATO Cyber Defence Pledge.
• Georgia and the European Union. Through the five-year programme, “EU4
Security, Accountability and the Fight against Crime in Georgia”, Georgia
receives assistance from the European Union in the fields of cybercrime, cyber
and hybrid threats handling, border management, civil protection and
supervision of the security sector. Georgia strengthened its cooperation within
the framework of the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy
platform, which echoes the internationally defined strategic goals of the
organization and, in total, by developing Georgia’s defence capabili ties,
supports consolidating its national security.
• Georgia and OSCE. Georgia sees great value in building a trusted network
between partner countries, enabled by confidence-building measures in the field
of cybersecurity. Georgian points of contact actively participate in the OSCE
cybersecurity platform and its initiatives.
• The Governments of Georgia and the United Kingdom signed the Memorandum
of Understanding on Cyber Security Cooperation. Its aim is to enhance mutual
work, share best practices and better align approaches on different topics of
cybersecurity.
• Georgia and Eastern Partnership countries. The Data Exchange Agency
continues cooperation with Eastern Partnership countries within the scope of the
“EU4 Digital: Improving Cyber Resilience in the Eastern Partnership
Countries” programme. The CyberEast project helps Georgia and other Eastern
Partnership countries to increase the capacities of cyberresilience, criminal
justice and electronic evidence of the Eastern Partnership countries, to better
address cybercrime. The focus is on improving legal and policy frameworks;
reinforcing the capacities of judicial and law enforcement authorities and
inter-agency cooperation; and introducing efficient international cooperation
mechanisms to increase trust on criminal justice, cybercrime and electronic
evidence, including between service providers and law enforcement.
• Georgia continues strengthening regional cooperation with neighbouring
countries under the umbrella of the Organization for Democracy and Economic
Development. In 2019, Georgian representatives took part in meetings at the
premises of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development in
Kiev.
• The Computer Emergency Response Team, a subsidiary unit of the Data
Exchange Agency of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, has signed a
considerable number of memorandums of cooperation to share knowledge and
experience with the respective organizations of European and Eastern
Partnership countries (i.e., Lithuania, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and Belaru s).
Georgia is actively participating in international cyberexercises and study
programmes, in which the country constantly takes leading places in terms of
observed results.
As a matter of practice, Georgia, with its immense national knowledge in the
field, considers international best and most relevant expertise as valuable guidance and
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