Turkey keen to import more from Georgia
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Turkey is interested in importing more Georgian goods and further enhancing economic ties, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili today.
Cavusoglu, who came to Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, met the country’s PM after sitting down with his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Janelidze earlier today.
Cavusoglu and Kvirikashvili spoke about regional transport and energy projects, regional security issues and Georgia’s integration process into the Euro-Atlantic space.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met Georgia’s President at the Presidential Palace in capital Tbilisi. Photo by the President’s webpage.
Afterward Cavusoglu met Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili, where the duo discussed trans-regional projects, as well as energy and transport-related issues.
The officials highlighted a closer partnership between Georgia and Turkey would benefit the two nations’ European partners, taking the two countries’ strategic location into account.
The Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu says his country will raise the issue of Georgia’s membership into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at the Alliance’s upcoming Warsaw Summit in Poland on July 8-9.
Georgia-Turkey relations were high on the agenda today during the meeting between Georgia’s Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze and Turkish Ambassador to Georgia Zeki Levent Gümrükçü.
Georgia and Turkey are simplifying bilateral customs rules to make it easier for goods to pass between the two nations.
Turkey is promising to reorganise the Sarpi customs checkpoint that connects Turkey with Georgia in a bid to make facilitation of trade easier between the two neighbouring states.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has congratulated Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on winning the Parliamentary Elections.
The first nine months of the year has seen the value of Georgia’s exports and imports (External Merchandise Trade) experience a slight downward trend year-on-year (y/y), claims the National Statistics Office of Georgia, Geostat.
The value of Georgia’s exports and imports (External Merchandise Trade) experienced a slight downward trend in the first four months of 2015 in comparison to 2014, claims preliminary data published by the National Statistics Office of Georgia (Geostat).
Georgia’s Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili believes Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan have huge economic potential which needs to be promoted all over the world.
Today Georgia’s capital Tbilisi hosted the fifth ministerial between Foreign Ministers of Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan, where the three officials agreed to intensify trilateral cooperation and develop the region’s energy, transport and Silk Road potential.
Georgia is exploring ways it can increase its exports to Turkey, particularly agricultural products including live cattle, fresh meat, tea, wine, honey and mineral water.