PM Garibashvili congratulates winners of Turkish Parliamentary Elections
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has congratulated Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on winning the Parliamentary Elections.
Garibashvili congratulated the ruling party as well as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the people of Turkey.
"I believe with these elections our friendly nation of Turkey has made an important step forward, which will further the friendly neighbouring relations between our countries, deepen our cooperation and contribute to peace and stability in our region,” Garibashvili said.
AKA won the critical Parliamentary Election, regaining the majority it lost in June.
With almost all ballots counted, the state-run Anadolu news agency said the AKP had won about 49 percent of the vote, while the main opposition CHP earned about 25 percent of votes.
The first nine months of the year has seen the value of Georgia’s exports and imports (External Merchandise Trade) experience a slight downward trend year-on-year (y/y), claims the National Statistics Office of Georgia, Geostat.
One of Turkey’s largest companies, Calik Holding, is expanding its business in Georgia.
The first cargo train travelling on a new transit route from China to Turkey, via Georgia, has departed for its maiden voyage and is expected to arrive at its destination in the coming days.
Construction of the $600 million USD Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway will be fully completed before November 2016, offering immense benefits to the three countries involved.
Turkish-Georgian cooperation and regional security were high on the agenda at today’s meeting between Georgia’s Defence Minister Tinatin Khidasheli and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Brussels, Belgium.
The Foreign Minister of Turkey Mevlut Cavusoglu says his country will raise the issue of Georgia’s membership into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) at the Alliance’s upcoming Warsaw Summit in Poland on July 8-9.
Turkey is interested in importing more Georgian goods and further enhancing economic ties, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili today.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called for Georgia’s accession into NATO during the Davos World Economic Forum in Switzerland, stating that ‘Georgia needs us and we need an ally like Georgia. So we need enlargement,’ Reuters reports. Cavusoglu stated during the panel discussion that “I don’t understand why we have not invited Georgia or why we haven’t activated the action plan for Georgia to become a member.”