EU Commissioner: lifting of EU visa-requirements marks achievement of desirable aim

Avramopoulos (L) told Georgia’s Prime Minister (R ) about positive developments in terms of Georgia-EU visa waiver’s final stage. Photo by Prime Minister’s press office.

Agenda.ge, 27 Feb 2017 - 09:21, Tbilisi,Georgia

European Union (EU) Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos expressed his excitement over Georgia and its foreign allies having reached a "desirable aim” in the lifting of visa-requirements for Georgian citizens traveling to the EU Schengen Zone.

I am very happy to be back in Tbilisi. It’s a beautiful city. I was lucky to be here earlier as well", Avramopoulos said while walking on the renewed Agmashenebeli Avenue late yesterday with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

Nice walk along recently renewed Aghmashenebeli Avenue - New #Tiflis with @Avramopoulos pic.twitter.com/nDkFW9Ag27
— Giorgi Kvirikashvili (@KvirikashviliGi) February 26, 2017

The aim of my visit is to meet with Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili. . . and I wanted to comment on the positive developments: in just 20 days Georgians will be able to travel visa-free to EU member countries", the Commissioner said.

During his meeting with representatives of Georgian culture, education and science at a cafe on Aghmashenebeli Avenue, Avramopoulos said he had personally worked to aid in the process of achieving this ‘important aim” over the course of the last two years.

The European Parliament voted in favour of visa-free travel for Georgian citizens to the Schengen Area on February 2.

Holders of Georgian biometric passports will now be able to enter the Schengen Area for 90 days within any 180-day period for holiday, business and other purposes except for that of working.