Eastern Partnership countries create catalogue of investment projects
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The countries of the Eastern Partnership have created a catalogue of ongoing projects in need of investments, which will enable investors from the EU to examine the projects in detail, Deputy Minister of Economy Genadi Arveladze stated yesterday at a briefing.
The catalogue includes both state and private sector projects in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine.
Projects in agriculture, recycling, infrastructure, transport and tourism are the focus of the catalogue.
Deputy Minister of Economy Genadi Arveladze. Photo: IPN.
Deputy Minister Genadi Arveladze said the catalogue is ‘unprecedented’ as it collects investment projects from all the Eastern Partnership countries.
The first investment forum of Eastern Partnership will be held on July 11 in the Georgian coastal city of Batumi.
The 16th International Conference, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, will also open tomorrow in Batumi.
One hundred young European Ambassadors from the EU and its six Eastern partner countries- Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine are gathering this week in Brussels to celebrate the achievements of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) in the past decade.
Next week Georgia will host European Council President Donald Tusk, Estonian PM Juri Ratas and eight foreign ministers from the EU and partner countries. Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said that the foreign officials will participate in an international conference in Batumi devoted to the 10th anniversary of Eastern Partnership.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has stayed Georgia needs more ambitious plans, like that of the Eastern Partnership 10 years ago. He also said the country is “ready to make large steps forward.”
Ten years have passed since the creation of the EU Eastern Partnership format, uniting six Eastern European countries: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine to support democracy, prosperity and stability in the region.
European Council President Donald Tusk has arrived in Georgia to participate in the international conference in the Black Sea town of Batumi, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative.
European Council President Donald Tusk says that the decision of Russia to ban direct flights to Georgia was “disproportionate and unjustified.” He said that Georgia has shown “devotion” to democratic reforms and the rule of law many times.
German Bundestag VP Claudia Roth has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to remember what the borders of Georgia and Ukraine looked like in 1991 before conflicts in the region broke out. Claudia Roth made the comment at the 16th Batumi International Conference, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership.
The Batumi 16th International Conference, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, has opened earlier today, with an “unprecedented number” of foreign guests, including the president of the European Council Donald Tusk, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reports.
The Financial Times has released an article by Suma Chakrabarti, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) titled Thirty years after the Berlin Wall, the region to watch is eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
Georgian Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili is taking part in the EBRD Eastern Partnership (EaP) Investment Summit taking place in the headquarters of the EBRD, in London, England on November 22.
Vice Prime Minister Maia Tskitishvili has met with Johannes Hahn, the European Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations and discussed a new initiative to choose Georgian focus regions and carry out new projects based on their needs.
