Georgian leaders send good wishes to Ukraine on Independence Day
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Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze have sent wishes of peace and success to Ukraine on its Independence Day.
Both statements stressed that the country is still fighting for its territorial integrity and sovereignty.
“We, Georgians, understand very well this pain and at the same time the price for independence and freedom. I am sure the day will come when both the Georgian and Ukrainian nations will celebrate freedom and independence within the framework of restoring their territorial integrity and the defence of sovereignty,” reads the PM’s statement.
The message was also published on Bakhtadze’s official Twitter account:
“I strongly believe that with united efforts we will overcome the difficulties and will achieve success on the path of our countries to European and Euro-Atlantic integration to guarantee peace and stability,” states the President of Georgia.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin is paying a visit to Georgia.
Georgia and Ukraine are working to make it possible for their citizens to travel between the two countries without a passport, only with an ID card. As of today, Georgian and Ukrainian citizens do not need a visa to visit each other, but they do need to have a passport to cross the border.
UPDATED: Ukraine will send a firefighting aircraft to help Georgia fight a forest fire that broke out yesterday near Abastumani, a small town and climatic spa in Georgia’s Samtskhe-Javakheti region.
Georgia does not recognize the referendum held in Crimea on March 16, 2014.
While announcing the decision today, Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze said that the new initiative is going to support tourism development and deepening economic relations between the two countries.
Georgia and Ukraine have agreed to make it possible for their citizens to travel between the two countries without a passport, only with a national ID card starting from March 1. 2019, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported.
The foreign ministers of Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have commemorated and condemned the ‘criminal deportation’ of the Tatar people from Crimea by Soviet regime 76 years ago.