TBILISI. May 17 (Intefax-AVN) - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze on Friday will meet with several Pentagon instructors that handle preparations for implementation of the U.S. program of training and equipping the Georgian army's special-purpose units, a spokesman for the Georgian State Chancellery told Interfax-Military News Agency.
"The meeting will be devoted to the arrival of the main group of U.S. military specialists in Tbilisi," the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
A total of 150 U.S. commandos will arrive in Georgia on May 27. The next day, a command post exercise will start in the Georgian General Staff in the framework of the U.S. program. The first group of American instructors arrived in the country on April 30.
The program envisages the training of Georgian anti-terrorist units amounting to some 2,000 servicemen.
A spokesman for the Georgian Defense Ministry said that the program will be implemented over a period of at least 21 months. Its cost will amount to about USD64m.