Georgia’s President meets EU’s Donald Tusk

Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili has discussed how to advance Georgia-European Union (EU) relations with President of the European Council Donald Tusk.

Margvelashvili met Tusk and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini within his Washington visit.

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"We believe that a visa-free regime for short visits for Georgian citizens will be an encouraging model for other EU partner states,” Margvelashvili said at the meeting.

The meeting of the three officials covered four main topics:

• Existing security environment in the region;
• Situation in Georgia’s Russian occupied regions;
• Visa liberalisation process; and
• Pre-election environment in Georgia.

President Margvelashvili condemned the recent terror attacks with a particular accent on the one in Brussels and said the international community needed to unite to fight this challenge.

"Georgia as a stable partner of the EU is committed to fully ... use all possible tools of partnership with the EU to counter the new threats of the hybrid war, global terrorism and cyber attacks,” Margvelashvili said.

The President also told Tusk that he believed the refugee crisis in Europe and tragic event in Brussels would not affect negatively Georgia-EU visa liberalisation dialogue.