Deputy Minister of Justice, Mr Aleksandre Tabatadze, Deputy Minister of Education, Ms Lia Gigauri, and the Head of the Council of Europe Office in Georgia, Mr Alessandro Savaris, as well as high –level representatives of the Georgian Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Corrections and Ministry of Health attended the Alternatives to Imprisonment for Drug Dependent Offenders project launch and round table on 22 June in Tbilisi. During the event, participants discussed possible policy amendments which would allow the criminal justice system to send drug offenders to treatment and rehabilitation facilities instead of prisons. The round table has been organised by the Pompidou Group and was hosted by the Ministry of Justice. It is part of the regional project, 'Criminal Justice Responses to Drug Dependent Prisoners', within the CoE/EU Eastern Partnership Programmatic Cooperation Framework (PCF).