India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar has scheduled his visit to Georgia for two days. The visit will be made on July 9 and 10. It is assumed that this visiting will significance as part of India's engagement with the Caucasus.

Till now, no such visit by India has been made, this is our first visit by an Indian external affairs minister to Georgia. During the visit to Georgia's capital Tbilisi, EAM will hold talks with Georgia's FM David Zalkaliani. Jaishankar will make a stopover from his visit to Russian capital, Moscow. Notably, Georgia and Russia don't share positive relations. In 2008, a brief war had raged between the two countries after which both the regions, Ossetia and Abkhazia declared independence with Moscow's blessings. Interestingly, Russia recognizes both territories as Independent states but Georgia has rejected this move. While, New Delhi does not recognize both regions are separate countries. This move of stopover was come up when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Pakistan after his India visit earlier this year. Russia dismissed any closeness to Islamabad, many in India saw it as an attempt by Moscow to hyphenate India and Pakistan. Lavrov's 2021 visit to Pakistan was the first visit by the Russian Foreign minister to Islamabad since 2012. As earlier mentioned, this is also the first visit by an Indian EAM to Georgia in the last 40 years. The last time Indian EAM visited the country was Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Georgia in June 1978. After that, Georgian Foreign Minister Irakli Menagarishvili and External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh had met in New Delhi on 11 May 2000.

Talking further about the relation between countries, India and Georgia do share a lot of historical connect. Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s wife Udaipuri Begum was of Georgian origin. Queen St. Ketevan, queen of Kakheti attained martyrdom in 1624 in Shiraz, Iran and her relics were brought to India by the Portuguese. Georgian Embassy is keen that the relics could be transferred to Georgia. Moreover, Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th century ‘The Knight in the Panther's Skin’ has references to India. The Indian embassy in Armenia is synchronously accredited to Georgia while Georgia has an embassy in Delhi.

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