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Council of Europe Secretary General: “Georgia’s occupied regions are on our agenda”

Georgia’s Prime Minister (L) met Council of Europe Secretary General in Strasbourg today. Photo by the Prime Minister’s webpage.

Agenda.ge, 20 Apr 2016 - 18:56, Tbilisi,Georgia

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorborn Jagland has told Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili that the issue of Georgia’s occupied regions was on the agenda of the international organisation.

In Strasbourg, France today Jagland met Kvirikashvili and discussed the upcoming Georgia-CoE three-year Action Plan, reforms in Georgia and the situation in Georgia’s two occupied regions.

After the meeting it was announced Jagland will visit Georgia in May this year and while here he will reveal Georgia-CoE Action Plan for 2016-2019.

Georgia's Prime Minister shared this news via his official Twitter account:

.@TJagland will visit #Georgia in May&@coe-Georgia Action Plan for 2016-2019 will be signed https://t.co/uPgKWGuFHx pic.twitter.com/VZLQN5X52x
— Giorgi Kvirikashvili (@KvirikashviliGi) 20 April 2016

Jagland said Georgia was a "special” country as it initiated the creation of the "very ambitious” three-year Action Plan that would serve to empower democracy, strengthen human rights and the rule of law in Georgia.

For his part Kvirikashvili thanked Jagland for his personal support to enhance the CoE’s relationship with Georgia.

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