PACE President meets Georgian Parliament Speaker in Tbilisi
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the PACE Liliane Maury Pasquier is currently meeting with Georgian Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze. Photo: 1TV.ge.
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President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury Pasquier has begun meetings with Georgian officials as part of her official visit to Georgia on April 29-30.
She is currently meeting with Georgian Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze.
The meeting, which is being held behind closed doors, is also being attended by the Head of the Council of Europe office in Georgia, Cristian Urse.
The officials will make a public statement after their meeting.
Later Pasquier will travel to the Tserovani settlement, near the town of Mtskheta, where about 1,500-2,000 inhabitants of the Akhalgori district in eastern Georgia, which is now occupied by Russia, live.
After Tserovani Pasquier will visit the village of Odzisi and will observe the territory adjacent to the administrative boundary line.
In Tbilisi, Pasquier will also meet with President Salome Zurabishvili and Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs Davit Zalkaliani and the Georgian delegation to PACE.
On 30 April, the PACE President will address the Georgian Parliament during a parliamentary session dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Georgia's accession to the Council of Europe.
Today’s session in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe opened with the Georgian polyphonic folk song Chakrulo, as Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze addressed the assembly on the 20th anniversary of Georgia’s membership in the body.
Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has met with PACE President Liliane Maury and Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland in Strasbourg, France earlier today with whom he discussed issues in the two Russian-occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury Pasquier believes that Georgia has achieved exciting progress on its path to the EU.
Liliane Maury Pasquier, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will pay a working visit to Georgia on April 29-30. She will meet with President Salome Zurabishvili, Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, Parliamentary Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze and Minister of Foreign Affairs Davit Zalkaliani.
President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury Pasquier said that “we will continue to search for ways” to resolve conflicts in occupied regions of Georgia South Ossetia and Abkhazia “and establish contact between peoples”.
Members of the Georgian delegation and six other countries left a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) yesterday in protest as Russia regained its voting right after having lost it in 2014 following its annexation of the Crimea.