First EU-Georgia High Level Transport Dialogue:
EU offers to establish a Road Safety Regional Center in Georgia

Georgian Economy Minister Giorgi Kobulia and Henrik Hololei, head of the European Commission Transport and Mobility. Photo: Ministry of Economy.

Agenda.ge, 30 Jan 2019 - 12:41, Tbilisi,Georgia

The first EU-Georgia High Level Transport Dialogue was held in Georgia's capital of Tbilisi on 29 January in order to further develop and expand the cooperation between the EU and Georgia. 

Georgian Economy Minister Giorgi Kobulia stated that dialogue with the EU will assist the government in developing new initiatives, and in 2019 and 2020 “we will see a significant result of logistical and transport systems development”.

The European Union finds Georgia to be one of the key regional partners in terms of road safety. To this end, the EU offered to establish a Road Safety Regional Center in Georgia, which will manage the road safety projects in other countries of the region from Georgia”, Kobulia said.

Th European Commission's Mobility and Transport department shared this news via its official Twitter account: