Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili the first degree order of merit during the Crimea Platform summit, the Georgian government administration announces.
President Zelensky also awarded the European Council President Charles Michel, the European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, presidents of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Slovakia and Moldova and prime ministers of Romania, Slovakia and Croatia.
PM Garibashvili along with the leaders of 40 countries participated in the Crimea Platform Summit earlier today and addressed the summit participants, noting that the Crimean platform is a 'window opportunity to speak out of the atrocities that the occupation forces have been committing against our people.’
Garibashvili arrived in Ukraine on August 21 with Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze and the Georgian Government Administration Head Ilia Darchiashvili.
PM Garibashvili met with Ukrainian President Zelensky, Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal and Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Dmytro Razumkov yesterday.
Great meeting w/ @ZelenskyyUa to discuss ???????????????? strategic partnership, common European & Euro-Atlantic aspirations, regional security issues & the importance of effective peaceful conflict resolution. ????????reaffirms its unwavering support for ????????'s sovereignty & territorial integrity. pic.twitter.com/37XGBkvGjH
— Irakli Garibashvili (@GharibashviliGe) August 22, 2021
The Crimea Platform summit was established in April of 2021 within the NATO parliamentary assembly and aims to achieve deoccupation of Crimea and its peaceful return to Ukraine.