EU integration path results “acknowledged” by Georgia’s European partners - Georgian FM
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Monday said the country’s European partners recognised the results achieved in its path of European integration. Photo: Government Administration
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Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Monday said the country’s European partners recognised the results achieved in its path of European integration.
Darchiashvili noted the partners acknowledged Georgia's “European prospects” in bilateral formats.
All our partners, of course, recognise the results that our country has achieved in recent years on the path to European integration, and this process will continue in the future. Our partners in bilateral formats recognise Georgia's European prospects and we are talking to them on how to accelerate this process,” the top Georgian diplomat said.
He also said there had “always” been and would “remain to be” countries within the EU that were “sceptical” to the enlargement of the bloc, pointing out the Government “actively” worked with such sceptics.
We are also actively working with the relevant sceptical [EU] countries to show them the opportunities that our country has created through the active reform agenda and the expectations that we have - the expectations that are very important to us when we talk about our European tomorrow,” Darchiashvili concluded.
The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday said if the European Union did not grant membership candidate status to the Associated Trio countries of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, “only Russia will be happy” with the outcome.
Granting Georgia the status of a European Union membership candidate would give the country “additional motivation” and represent a “recognition of progress” it has achieved, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Friday in a discussion held at the Global Security Forum in Bratislava.
The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday said it was a “crucial time” for the European Union to decide whether Europe “stood with its partners” by granting Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova the member candidate status.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Thursday said the country’s application for European Union membership was the result of the “tireless” and “unwavering” efforts of the Georgian people aimed at “regaining a place in the family” of European nations.
Georgia has made its move and now it is the time for the European Union to grant membership candidate status to the country without delay, given the current geopolitical pressures, Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Tuesday in a letter addressed to Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament.