Swedish official in Georgia to voice support

A Swedish Government official is visiting Georgia today to show support for Georgia signing the Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union (EU).

Georgia’s Foreign Ministry is hosting the Foreign Minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt as he visits the country for one day.

Bildt is in this part of the world to visit Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine in the wake of these three countries’ signing AAs with the EU on June 27.

During his visits, Bildt will meet local politicians and representatives of civil society. He will also take part in a number of media activities directed at the countries' populations.

"The signing of Association Agreements with the EU by Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are very significant events for these countries and for the EU - not least for Sweden. We have long actively worked for this outcome”, Bildt said.

"By visiting these countries, I would now like to show my support for the important steps they have chosen to take, and also refresh our understanding of what we in Sweden and Europe can do to further facilitate this process."

Bildt will be in Georgia for one day before visiting the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, tomorrow morning.

Bildt together with Polish Foreign Ministers, Radoslaw Sikorski paid a visit in Tbilisi late on 22 October 2013 less than a week before the October 27 presidential election in Georgia as part of their pre-Eastern Partnerships trip, which also included Moldova and Ukraine.