TBILISI, March 12. /TASS/. Georgia and NATO will hold a command post exercise in Georgia from March 20-25, the Georgian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

"The Defense Forces of Georgia will hold Georgia-NATO exercises at the Joint Training and Evaluation Centre from March 20-25," the ministry said in a statement. "In 2022, they will be Georgia-NATO command post maneuvers, which means computer exercises rather than field exercises."

They will be part of multinational exercises that involve a total of 23 countries that are NATO members and partners, the statement said.

The objective of the exercises is upskilling in operation planning and experience sharing. The drills will improve interoperability between the militaries of various countries, the Defense Ministry said. Similar exercises were last held in 2019.

Georgia has been cooperating with NATO since the end of 1990s and aspiring to join the alliance. Starting in 2012, the government is also pursuing a "normalization of relations with Russia.".