Georgian Foreign Minister participates in Council of Europe ministerial meeting
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Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze is participating in the 127th meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE).
The event is taking place from May 18-19 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
One of the issues on the agenda of the meeting is conflicts in Europe and the role of the CoE in settling them.
At this session Janelidze will deliver a speech about the difficult human rights situations in Georgia’s Russian occupied regions. Participants will also discuss CoE Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland’s 15th Consolidated Report on the Conflict in Georgia issued last month.
Mikheil Janelidze meets with Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides. Photo: MFA of Georgia
As part of his visit to Cyprus Janelidze is scheduled to hold meetings with his counterparts. He already met with Cyprus Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides.
The pair discussed both political and economic relations between the two states and also stressed the importance of an upcoming visit of Cyprus President to Georgia.
Georgia has received an unprecedented level of support from members of the Council of Europe (CoE) at a meeting of CoE Committee of Ministers Deputies, says the Georgian Foreign Ministry.
The Committee of Ministers Deputies of the Council of Europe (CoE) yesterday discussed the 14th Consolidated Report on the Conflict in Georgia, paying particular attention to current difficult human rights situation in two occupied regions of Georgia- Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze met with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland in the Cyprus capital of Nicosia.