A/75/123 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 20-08285 41/84