Georgian, Lithuanian FMs discuss Georgia's Euro-Atlantic integration agenda
The close friendship between the countries and Lithuania’s support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity has also been reaffirmed at the meeting. Photo: Georgian Foreign Ministry.
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Georgian foreign minister David Zalkaliani discussed the country’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration agenda, including the results of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) summit held in December last year, at his meeting with Lithuanian counterpart Gabrielius Landsbergis on Wednesday.
The EaP summit was held on December 15 in Brussels, where the initiative of the associated trio uniting Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova ‘to enhance cooperation with the EU’ was acknowledged.
Zalkaliani visited Vilnius yesterday for the meeting, during which he is also scheduled to hold a meeting with Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda as well.
Foreign Minister @GLandsbergis: Frank and productive discussion with FM @DZalkaliani. I expressed #Lithuania‘s ???????? strong support for #Georgia‘s ???????? European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations. We discussed common security challenges, and the need to advance the reform agenda. pic.twitter.com/IaR6VUVl7r
— Lithuania MFA (@LithuaniaMFA) January 19, 2022
The close friendship between the countries and Lithuania’s support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity was reaffirmed at the meeting between Zalkaliani and Landsbergis
The two foreign ministers stressed the particular significance of the meeting in light of the ongoing security tensions between NATO and Russia, confirming the alliance’s open-door policy and the sovereign choice of countries to join it would not be reconsidered.
Following the meeting Landsbergis spoke of the Russian aggression, saying “although today the threat is aimed at Ukraine, obviously, Russia's goal includes Georgia as well.”
[Russia] wants the choices made by the peoples of these states to lose their validity. We can not allow this to happen,” Landsbergis said.
Zalkaliani said red lines for Georgia’s western partners were “the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as our free will to choose security alliances.”
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— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) January 19, 2022
[Red lines include] the inadmissibility of establishing new dividing lines and new spheres of influence in Europe [by Russia],” Zalkaliani further added.
The ministers also discussed the situation in the occupied regions of Georgia and in the south Caucasus region in general. The Peaceful Neighbouring Initiative, introduced by the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili at the 76th meeting of the UN General Assembly in late September last year, was also discussed.
The initiative aims to develop a dialogue and restore trust between neighbours in the region and strengthen the role of Georgia as a mediator.
Zalkaliani will complete his visit to Lithuania on January 21.
NATO will not reconsider its decisions regarding Georgia’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and Euro-Atlantic integration, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said following his meeting with the alliance's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on Monday.
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the European integration of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine is ‘within the interests of the EU’. At a meeting of EU ministers of foreign affairs yesterday, Landsbergis asserted that for the Eastern Partnership to succeed, political and economic ties with Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine need to be strengthened.
"It is important that all political parties and elected members of parliament join the efforts to the immediate implementation of the agreement”, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis said during a press conference today.
“I want to confirm that Lithuania is a true friend of Georgia, Georgian people and a true supporter of it’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations”, Lithuanian FM Gabrielius Landsbergis said after a meeting with his Georgian counterpart, David Zalkaliani.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has discussed regional security challenges and Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda on an official visit to Lithuania earlier today.
Russia’s “illegal and provocative actions” along the administrative line separating Georgia’s occupied regions from the government-controlled territory, as well as Kremlin’s policy on sovereignty of Georgia and Ukraine were among topics discussed by Georgian foreign minister David Zalkaliani and Toivo Klaar, European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus, on Tuesday.
Georgian foreign minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Friday discussed “further” activation of political dialogue and maintaining close communication in a joint meeting with Marko Mihkelson, Rihards Kols and Laima Andrikienė, the foreign committee chairs of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian parliaments.