National Security Concept of Georgia (2011)

The National Security Concept of Georgia (2011) is a national cross-sectoral concept. It explains fundamental national values and national interests, the vision of the nation’s secure development, threats, risks and challenges, and establishes the main directions for national security policy.
Among others, it provides for diversification of energy sources and transportation routes; development and modernization of the country’s energy systems and their integration into regional energy infrastructure; ensuring the environmental security of Georgia and the region; ensuring civil integration and maintaining national and cultural uniqueness; overcome poverty, improve living standards, and develop a strong middle class; develop an environment that fosters job creation and further improving those aspects of the social security that provide social assistance to people living below the poverty line; reducing the use of natural resources and the prevention of environmental damage caused by natural and manmade crises; develop and implement efficient measures to prevent pollution of all kinds—of air, water, and earth—to protect forest resources and the Black Sea, and to manage radioactive and other hazardous materials on the territory of Georgia; and increase international pressure on the Russian Federation to cease the illegal extraction of natural construction materials and timber resources from Abkhazia to be used for construction related to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.