Ministry of Defence said foreign diplomatic missions in Georgia had “positively” evaluated the country’s new Defence Code that introduces systemic changes to the Georgian Defence Forces and the compulsory military service.

The new document designates the Ministry as the only body ensuring compulsory military service from 2025, in a departure from the previous arrangement when different state structures ensured its fulfilment, in addition to introducing other changes.

Describing the Code as “another important step for the strengthening of the Georgian army and its institutional development”, the Ministry officials told the diplomats it had considered “best practices of the world"s leading countries”, as well as Georgia’s security and defence goals, while drafting the document.