Georgia might accelerate signing the Association Agreement with EU

Georgia might sign the Association Agreement (AA) with the European Union (EU) earlier that June.

State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alexi Petriashvili commented about this possibility at the first meeting of the 16th session of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee between Georgia and the EU.

At today’s meeting Georgian side made a presentation about the country’s integration process to the European structures.

If signing of the AA was accelerated earlier than June, Georgia needed support from the EU following the tense situation in the wider region, Petriashvili said.

"We are pleased that the AA will be signed no later than June. I do not exclude further speeding up of this process. The Georgian Government has been implementing reforms aimed the end of dialogue of visa liberalization” Petriashvili said.

The state Minister indicated questioning of Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili will not influence the process of signing the AA.