Georgian PM meets Turkish FM in Tbilisi to discuss strategic projects, plans

Georgian PM has met with the Turkish FM before the beginning of the eighth meeting of Georgian, Turkish and Azerbaijani FMs in Tbilisi. Photo: government of Georgia press office. 

Agenda.ge, 23 Dec 2019 - 12:32, Tbilisi,Georgia

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has met with Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu, who is visiting Tbilisi to participate in the eighth, trilateral meeting of Georgian, Azerbaijani  and Turkish FMs, earlier today. 

We value our special relations with Turkey and welcome further strengthening of strategic partnership,” Gakharia has stated at the meeting.

Gakharia and Cavusoglu spoke about the high-level, Georgia-Turkey strategic cooperation council meeting scheduled at the beginning of the next year in Ankara and bilateral energy and transport projects, including the Southern Gas Corridor (a part of which, TANAP, has been recently launched in Turkey) and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. 

Apart from the issues of strategic cooperation Georgian FM David Zalkaliani (R) briefed his Turkish counterpart on Russia's illegal activities in Georgia. Photo: Foreign Ministry press office. 

Cavusoglu has expressed his support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. 

Georgian FM David Zalkaliani, who has also met with Cavusoglu face-to-face, raised the adduction of a well-known Georgian doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili by Russian-controlled occupation forces and current severe humanitarian situation in Georgia's two Russian occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.