PM starts Latvia visit, meets EU high official
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Georgia will do everything it can to positively resolve the visa liberalisation issue, said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at today's meeting with the European Union's (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini.
The meeting was held within the international conference The European Year of Development, which is set to open in Riga, Latvia, today.
At the meeting the EU official and the Georgian leader discussed Georgia-EU relations, effective implementation of the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan and the threats facing Georgia’s territorial integrity.
PM Garibashvili noted Georgia would do anything it could to positively solve the visa liberalisation issue.
Mogherini expressed hope that Georgia would become a "successful example” at the upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit, due to be held in Riga on May 21-22.
In response, Garibashvili informed Mogherini that Russia planned to sign an 'Alliance and Integration' treaty with Georgia's breakaway region Tskhinvali (South Ossetia). Russia signed a similar agreement with Georgia's other breakaway region Abkhazia last month. This move was condemned by Georgia and the wider international community.
At the meeting Garibashvili stressed the importance of the EU highest officials having a clear position on this issue.
He also spoke about the reforms Georgia had implemented to develop the country's economy and strengthen democratic institutions. He particularly mentioned the country had made efforts to begin a major reform of the Chief Prosecutor's Office.
After the official part of the talks ended, PM Garibashvili invited the EU High official to Georgia.
Within his visit to Riga, Garibashvili is scheduled to meet the President and Prime Minister of Latvia and deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of the European Year of Development.
The Russian President’s aide Vladislav Surkov in charge of overseeing Moscow’s relations with Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) believes the planned treaty between Moscow and Tskhinvali will be signed early 2015.
A Kremlin proposed new treaty on ‘Alliance and Integration’ with Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia and Russia will be signed by the end of this year, Abkhazia’s de-facto leader Raul Khajimba announced.
Latvian high officials have welcomed Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to the Latvian capital city of Riga. Today Garibashvili met with Latvia's Prime Minister and President.
Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has delivered a speech one of the high-level panel discussions of the European Year for Development 2015 in front of other world leaders and European Union (EU) officials.
The EU said Mogherini would come to Georgia after completing her November 9 visit to Ukraine. She was due to be in Georgia on Tuesday, November 10.
"Georgia has fulfilled many significant obligations and should keep following the same path in order to get positive recommendation at the end of the year in terms of visa liberalisation,” believes European Union (EU) top official Federica Mogherini.
High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, Federica Mogherini, has congratulated Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikahsvili on appointing the post.