Danish Foreign Minister to visit Georgia today
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Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen will travel to Georgia today.
Samuelsen is scheduled to meet with senior Georgian officials, including President Giorgi Margvelashvili and Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Denmark@anderssamuelsen to pay an official visit to #Georgia on 22-23 February 2018 @DanishMFApic.twitter.com/hEOxf6xd1f
— MFA of Georgia (@MFAgovge) February 22, 2018
Denmark’s top diplomat will also meet his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Janelidze on Friday, after which a presentation will be held on Danish Neighborhood Programme – a scheme to promote human rights, democracy and economic development in the European Union’s eastern neighbours.
To implement the programme, Georgia and Ukraine have been selected as "priority countries” to receive financial support from the Danish government for the next four years.
Samulsen will also visit the occupation line between Georgia and its Russian-occupied region of Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Georgia and Ukraine have been selected as "priority countries” to receive Danish support for the next four years. The Danish Foreign Ministry presented the Danish Neigbourhood Programme 2017-21 in Copenhagen yesterday.
President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has appointed ex-Deputy Foreign Minister Gigi Gigiadze as the country’s new Ambassador to Denmark.
A Georgian Consulate has opened in the Kingdom of Denmark to mark the strengthened partnership between the two countries.
Politics, economic trade and regional security were on the agenda of a dual country meeting between Georgia and Denmark.
The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anders Samuelsen is paying the first ever visit to Georgia. Meeting with the Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze upon arrival, Samuelsen once again reiterated his country’s firm support towards the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia and the country’s European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.