Georgia is ready to send more troops to join the Coalition forces in Iraq, President Saakashvili said on 4 March, reported Civil Georgia. We are ready to send more troops to Iraq within the year We want to show that Georgia is not running away from the difficult situation, but on the contrary, we are ready to contribute further,  the news source cited Saakashvili as saying. According to the Presidents statement, his country is also planning to send troops to Afghanistan to contribute to the NATO-led coalition there.
Georgia currently has about 850 of its elite troops in Iraq and represents one of the most significant contributors to the coalition forces in terms of per capita troop deployment. A total of 18 Georgian servicemen have been injured in Iraq since Georgia first began contributing its forces to the U.S.-led coalition in August 2003.
This information was originally published March 4, 2007 (www.civil.ge)
-- 03/15/2007