The President of Georgia awarded NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and Central Asia, the Georgian State Award - Golden Fleece.

Salome Zourabichvili personally handed over the award to James Appathurai at the Orbeliani Palace.

NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative was awarded for “his outstanding personal contribution to the deepening of Georgia-NATO relations and Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, and for his strong support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the international arena.