19/12/2017 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 19 December, the EU’s Political and Security Committee appointed Danish diplomat Erik Høeg to head the European Union monitoring mission in Georgia, EUMM Georgia. Høeg, 50, is currently Deputy Head of EUMM and has been Acting Head of mission since 1 September 2017. He succeeds Lithuanian Kęstutis Jankauskas, who has held the post for more than two and a half years. The EUMM was deployed in September 2008 following the EU-brokered Six Point Agreement which ended the August war between Russia and Georgia. It provides civilian monitoring of parties’ actions, including full compliance with the Six-Point Agreement and subsequent implementing measures throughout Georgia. Based in Tbilisi, with field offices in Gori, Mtskheta and Zugdidi, the mission has a staff of some 200 EU observers. (CG)