European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana will visit Georgia Tuesday ahead of the deployment of an E.U. mission to help stabilize the country, a Georgian official told AFP.
Security council secretary Alexander Lomaia said Solana would meet Georgian officials and brief journalists alongside President Mikhail Saakashvili.
He said Solana would also visit the city of Gori, which was on the front lines in Georgia's brief war with Russia in August.
At least 200 civilian monitors from 22 E.U. countries will Wednesday begin a mission intended to help stabilize the situation after the war over the Moscow-backed rebel region of South Ossetia.