Legal basis for military cooperation. An updated agreement on defence cooperation, replacing the agreement of 2001, was signed in Vilnius on 1 July 2013. An agreement on military studies was signed at the Military Academy of Lithuania in 2004. A bilateral technical agreement on the deployment of Georgian forces in the Lithuanian-led Ghor Provincial Reconstruction Group in Afghanistan was signed in 2007. An agreement on mutual protection of classified information was signed in Brussels in 2009.
Military diplomatic representation. Lithuania appointed a defense attaché to Georgia, who resides in Tbilisi, in 2005.
A Georgian military representative has been appointed to Lithuania since 2007, residing in Vilnius. A deputy defense attaché to Georgia was also appointed in 2019.
Bilateral military cooperation is carried out according to annually signed plans. Ministers of Defense, military commanders, and other high-level representatives of the national defense system meet regularly to discuss the most pressing issues of cooperation. Expert meetings are held on strategic communication and public relations, strategic planning, hybrid threats, cybersecurity, and other issues. The National Defense Volunteer Forces cooperate with the Georgian National Guard, as well as the land and special operations forces of both countries, and military academies. Georgian and Lithuanian soldiers participate in joint exercises in both countries. Georgian representatives are invited to study at Lithuanian military education institutions (English language, medic, instructor, and officer courses) and their studies at the Baltic Defence College are financed. In recent years, cooperation in the field of cybersecurity has been developed intensively – bilateral consultations are held, joint participation in national and NATO cybersecurity exercises, and Georgian experts have also joined the activities of the Lithuanian-US Regional Cyber Defence Centre in Kaunas, which began operating in 2021.
Multilateral initiatives. The Nordic-Baltic countries, together with the UK, established a NATO-Georgian vocational training programme in 2009. It was designed to train civil servants working in the security and defense sector. Lithuania, together with Latvia, led a public relations working group and implemented various specialist training projects from 2009 to 2014. Lithuanian specialists participated in a working group led by Norway, which advised the Georgian Ministry of Defence on issues of the management of human resources. Lithuania supported financially the Vocational Training Programme, operating on the principle of a Trust Fund. A joint NATO-Georgian Training and Evaluation Centre was established in 2015 at the initiative of the Nordic-Baltic Support Programme. Lithuania has been participating in its activities since 2015, and provided financial support for the purchase of the necessary equipment for the centre in 2017.
Cooperation in international operations. From June 2007 to August 2013, Georgian military medics worked in the Lithuanian-led PRT in Afghanistan.
