PM urges EU leaders to discuss Georgia’s European future

Georgia’s Prime Minister has sent a special letter to the heads of EU member states urging the international leaders to discuss Georgia’s European future.

The country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Tamar Beruchashvili, said PM Irakli Garibashvili had addressed the world leaders in a letter, before she entered a meeting with the European Ambassadors in Georgia today.

Speaking to reporters, Beruchashvili assessed the situation in Crimea, Ukraine, and said it was important the international community banded together and dialogue between world leaders intensified, in light of Russia’s controversial actions.

"A special meeting of the heads of the European Council will be held in Brussels today. I would like to note that our Prime Minister addressed the leaders of the EU member states with a special letter, in which he said that as well as supporting Ukraine, it was necessary to start discussions about the European future of Georgia, which is ready and clearly demonstrates the will to deepen and develop European reforms. [Georgia] is also ready not in any circumstances to overstep its European choice,” she said.

The Deputy Minister also stressed it was important Georgia received support from Europe as it went through this difficult process.

"Georgia needs very serious support and solidarity in this process, and of course, a European perspective would be very important for us,” she added.