TBILISI. Aug 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Fifty servicemen of the 16th Sechkher mountain rifle battalion of the Georgian Armed Forces, who had undergone training under the Pentagon's Train and Equip program, will be sent for peacekeeping in Afghanistan, a source in the Georgian Defense Ministry told Interfax-Military News Agency Thursday.
"The servicemen will undergo additional four-week training in Germany, and then will be sent to Afghanistan together with German peacekeepers for the term of three months," he said.
He added that Captain Zurab Agladze would be in charge of the peacekeepers. "The sending date and the place are negotiated," he said.
According to him, Georgian authorities will give allowances, while the U.S. will provide them with the uniform.
The peacekeepers will be paid $480 monthly each, plus about $200 a month under the volunteer contracts.
Georgia has peacekeepers in Iraq and Kosovo. A Georgian Defense Ministry spokesperson NATO Chikovani confirmed that Georgina peacekeepers' sending to Afghanistan is negotiated, but it is undecided yet when they will be sent.