Georgia participates in pre-Eastern Partnership Summit event
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The Georgian minister responsible for overseeing the country’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration is in Latvia to discuss with international officials what next year’s Eastern Partnership Summit can offer partner countries.
Georgia’s State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alex Petriashvili delivered a speech at the ninth annual National Conference organized by Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence of Latvia in framework of his working visit in Riga, the Latvian capital.
Minister Petriashvili participated in the panel ‘What can be offered at the Riga Eastern Partnership Summit?’
As he stated, he believed the Riga Eastern Partnership Summit in 2015 would be crucial in terms of "confirming European perspective” to Georgia as well as Ukraine and Moldova.
The panel participants discussed the situation in the region and the challenges Eastern Partnership member countries faced.
Those involved in the discussion, which included Latvia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius, stressed how important it was for European Union (EU) countries to support the European aspirations of Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries.
It was underlined that imposing visa-free regimes with EaP countries would be the best way EU countries could show their support.
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