By TBILISI. Sept 13 (Interfax) – The Georgian Defense Ministry has refuted an opposition television channel’s reports that the United States invited Tbilisi to begin talks on establishing a U.S. military base in the country.
“This information is being disseminated by a politically biased person, which is then used by certain media outlets and politically biased individuals to carry out a campaign of disinformation,” the Georgian Defense Ministry said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who visited Georgia several months before the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, invited the ruling Georgian Dream party to hold talks on establishing a military base, the opposition Mtavari Arkhi television channel said on Tuesday. Austin’s proposal was declined by the Georgian authorities, but they concealed this, the television channel said.
