Subject: RE: Briefing on COVID-19 for Ambassadors and Heads of development agencies
From: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
To: "DOMENTE, Silviu" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Amiran Gamkrelidze <[email-masked]>, Maia Nikoleishvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:41:31 +0000

Dear Silviu

Many thanks for your e-mail. Absolutely, we would be delighted to do this together with your office.  Tomorrow March 6th  AM would be a good time.

Please kindly let me know if there is anything we can do on our end.

პატივისცემით,

თამარ გაბუნია

მინისტრის პირველი მოადგილე

Sincerely,

Tamar Gabunia, MD, MPH

First Deputy Minister

From: DOMENTE, Silviu [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: 4 March, 2020 15:03
To: Tamar Gabunia <[email-masked]>
Cc: Amiran Gamkrelidze <[email-masked]>
Subject: Briefing on COVID-19 for Ambassadors and Heads of development agencies

Dear Tamar,

The UN Resident Coordinator and our office  gets and increased number of requests from embassies and development agencies for a briefing on COVID-19.

We think it would be the best to organize such a briefing together with the ministry and NCDC.

Our office and UN resident Coordinator’s office could take care of any logistics, if needed, but probably they will be minimal.

As far as I know such briefings have been organized in other countries and also our Regional Office organized recently a briefing for all the ambassadors in Copenhagen.

We have materials available and it should not be a big problem.

They might, however, raise issues related to access of  their children to international schools and of their staff and dependents to relevant health services.

Please let me know what you think about this and if we go for it, we can discuss the details.

Also what would be the best time for that – any possibility to do it by the end of this week? I understand this might be too challenging, but that’s what some of the ambassadors asked for…

Alternatively we can provide briefing to them from WHO side alone, but as I said it is not the preferred scenario.

Thank you,

Silviu