Georgian Parliament Speaker visits Montenegro
Georgian and Montenegrin Parliament Speakers met yesterday. Photo: Archil Talakvadze/Facebook
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Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze paid an official visit to Montenegro on October 8-10.
During the visit Talakvadze held meetings with Montenegrin President Milo Dukanovic, Parliament Speaker Ivan Brajović and other high-ranking officials.
During the meeting with President Dukanovic, Speaker Talakvadze discussed deepening political and economic relations between Georgia and Montenegro as well as Georgia’s NATO and EU aspirations.
President Dukanovic reaffirmed his firm support for Georgia's territorial integrity and expressed his commitment to further deepen the cooperation, the Georgian parliament’s press office reported.
Archil Talakvadze and Milo Dukanovic. Photo: Archil Talakvadze/Facebook
The Georgian and Montenegrin counterparts, Talakvadze and Brajović, also agreed on close parliamentary cooperation and intensive exchange of visits.
At a joint press conference yesterday, Speaker Talakvadze thanked his counterpart for supporting the territorial integrity and Euro-Atlantic aspiration of Georgia.
Accession of Montenegro to NATO is a strong message for Georgia that we are also able to become the NATO member”, Talakvadze stated.
He also said that Georgia is proud that its soldiers “stand shoulder-to-shoulder protecting regional peace and stability”.
President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic accepted Georgian PM"s invitation to visit Georgia in the near future and also invited Mamuka Bakhtadze to Montenegro. The two leaders met at the 55th Munich Security Conference.
President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Madeleine Moon, who is on official visit to Georgia, says that cooperation with Georgia is of high importance for the assembly she chairs. She vowed to broadly speak about Georgia’s progress towards NATO during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in October.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze, who has recently been elected to the role, is visiting the United States on his first official trip, where he said that the proportional voting system, put forward by the Georgian Dream ruling party, will increase the legitimacy of the government and help stability in the country.
From now on citizens of Georgia can travel visa free to Montenegro, the Georgian Foreign Ministry announced today.
The Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Archil Talakvadze will visit the United States with the Parliamentary Delegation on February 5-10.
Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic is paying an official visit to Georgia for the first time in the history of diplomatic relations between Georgia and Montenegro. President Djukanovic will be welcomed by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili at the Orbeliani Presidential Palace where an official welcoming ceremony will take place, after which the two presidents will have a face-to-face meeting and a joint briefing.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili and Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic have discussed the geopolitical condition of the two countries at the meeting earlier today and noted that despite the differences between Georgia and Montenegro the countries have a lot of similarities. "We have come to the common conclusion that more EU involvement is important in the Western Balkans as well as in the Caucasus,” Zurabishvili stated.