Defense Minister, Mindia Janelidze, spent New Year’s Eve with the Georgian troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, MoD said on January 3.

51st light infantry battalion is deployed at Bagram Air Field , where it took over the force protection task in early November, 2014.

Georgia also has a company-size unit in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, where it has the task of rapid reaction force at German army’s Camp Marmal.

The Defense Minister was accompanied by Deputy Defense Minister Gocha Ratiani and deputy chief of staff of the armed forces Col. Roman Jokhadze.