President Saakashvili and PM Ivanishvili are attending on Sunday evening a reception on visiting U.S. navy ship, Bulkeley, which makes a four-day port call in Georgia’s Black Sea town of Batumi.

Reception on the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) is also attended by parliament speaker Davit Usupashvili and government members, among them Interior Minister Irakli Garibashvili; Defense Minister Irakli Alasania; Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze; State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alexi Petriashvili; Energy Minister and Deputy PM Kakha Kaladze; head of the Adjara Autonomous Republic’s government Archil Khabadze is also present.