EU appoints new head of its Monitoring Mission in Georgia

On 26 March, the Council of the European Union appointed a new head of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia).

Major General Bettina Boughani was appointed from 21 March 2024 until 14 December 2024. She is a commissioned officer of the French National Gendarmerie with extensive experience in international relations and stabilisation missions. 

Previously, she held various senior positions within the United Nations and the French Gendarmerie, as well as in the Ministry of the Interior. Most recently she was involved in conflict prevention, mediation, and peacekeeping in sensitive political and security contexts as MINUSMA’s Police Commissioner (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali).

Bettina Boughani will succeed Dimitrios Karabalis.

EUMM Georgia is an unarmed civilian monitoring mission consisting of over 200 monitors from EU member states. It was deployed in October 2008 following the EU-mediated Six Point Agreement of 12 August 2008 and the subsequent agreement on Implementing Measures of 8 September 2008, which put an end to the conflict between Georgia and Russia. 

The mission’s mandate consists of stabilisation, normalisation and confidence building, as well as reporting to the EU in order to inform European policy-making and thus contribute to the future EU engagement in the region.

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Biography of Major General Bettina Boughani