Vice Prime Minister to participate in the Eastern Partnership Investment Summit
The Summit is related to the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership Initiative. Photo: err.ee.
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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.
The Summit is related to the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Partnership Initiative.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP), which launched in 2009, is a cooperation framework of the EU and six countries of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus which are Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Tomorrow, the EBRD will also host the President of Armenia and the Prime Ministers of Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus. The summit will also be attended by Johannes Hahn, the EU commissioner, EBRD president Suma Chakrabarti, international investors and entrepreneurs.
In the framework of the visit, Tskitishvili will hold business meetings and participate in a high-level discussion panel dedicated to the investment climate and new opportunities of the countries of Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.
EBRD continues to support Easter Europe and the Caucasus,” said Suma Chakrabarti, the EBRD president at the article released by Financial Times today.
Since 2009, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has funded 1,200 projects in the EaP countries worth 26 billion Euros.
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.
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.
A new institutional set-up of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative has been launched in Brussels in the presence of senior officials from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and the EU Member States.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) ministerial was held in Luxemburg yesterday, where Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani once again emphasized that his country’s ultimate goal is EU membership.
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.
The Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries intend to sign an agreement on regional mobile roaming by the end of 2020, reports EUneighbours.eu.