Leri Barnabishvili, Head of LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau, delivered an opening speech at the international conference organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The topic of the conference was “Strengthening Efforts to Identify Missing Persons and the Needs of Their Families". Along with Georgian experts, forensic pathologists from USA, Europe and the Middle East, who have experience working with remains of people gone missing, participate In the conference. The main goal of the conference is to provide platform for sharing current experience, strategies and practical knowledge, also to develop recommendations for forensic activities in the national as well as international level.

Leri Barnabishvili, Head of LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau hosted Mukhasojaev Akilbek Abdildaevich, Director of the State Forensic Service of Kyrgyz Republic, also various executives and experts of the Kyrgyz Forensic Service. Coordinator of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and UN National Coordinator in the Kyrgyz Republic also attended the meeting who are directly involved in the process of obtaining international accreditation for the Kyrgyz Bureau of Expertise. Future co-operation plans were discussed, under which Kyrgyz colleagues will receive consultation by Bureau experts in terms of receiving international accreditation

Leri Barnabishvili, Head of LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau, hosted Severin Shapaz, Head of ICRC Delegation to Georgia, and Maria Mikellide, ICRC Forensic Coordinator. The meeting focused on the long-term cooperation between the Bureau and ICRC, within which the joint effort in the process of identifying persons gone missing during the armed conflicts of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.

In October 2019, Oil Products Examination Unit at the Department of Chemical and Narcological Examination, LEPL Levan Samkharauli National Forensic Bureau participated in proficiency testing. The testing was organized by the Institute for Interlaboratory Studies, Netherlands, which is an independent organization providing various types of interlaboratory studies (qualification tests, cross-examination, joint control) for analytical laboratories in more than 100 participating countries.