SSSG releases statement on the agreement signed between the State Security Service of Georgia and State Security Committee of Belarus.

“Cooperation Agreement between the State Security Service of Georgia and The State Security Committee of Belarus was signed in 2016. Following the signing of the document, Georgia made all the steps within the respective terms to ensure entry into force of the document, while the Republic of Belarus put the document signed in 2016 into force in August of the current year and made this information available via media.

The Agreement intents on cooperation between the parties in the fields of fight against terrorism, corruption as well as other international and transnational organized crimes committed against state security.

The state, in accordance to its interests, voluntarily exchanges the information in the direction of fight against crime, hence, this Agreement does not oblige the parties to carry out an act which is against their state interests.

The SSSG has got law-enforcement cooperation of the similar type with multiple partner countries worldwide, including with the US, the UK, France, Lithuania and other NATO and EU-member countries”, - reads the statement.