EU Association Agreement will go public next week

The text of the initialed Association Agreement between the EU and Georgia will go public on Monday.

Under the EU regulations, the document should remain secret until it comes into force, but Georgia and the EU agreed on making an exception, according to David Zalkaliani, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Georgia.

As Zalkaniani said, The text will be firstly published in English and it will be uploaded to the Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry web-site.

The each page of the secret 1,125 page document was signed by the Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia Davit Zalkaliani and Deputy Economy Minister Mikheil Janelidze in Vilnius, Lithuania. The official signing ceremony will occur on Friday.

The association agreement with the EU will come into force in September 2014.