German Ambassador: all parties should unite to overcome polarisation, fulfil EU membership candidacy conditions
The Ambassador said related debates arranged at the Parliament, and public demonstrations held to express citizens’ opinion a “legitimate discussion”, and stressed the significance of avoiding a discourse that would cast opposing sides as “illegitimate or incapable of working in Georgian politics”. Photo: Deutsche Botschaft Tiflis/Facebook.
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Hubert Knirsch, the German Ambassador to Georgia, on Sunday welcomed the Georgian Government’s initiation of work on a strategy to fulfil the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Council for granting the country the European Union membership candidate status, and said “all parties” should work in unison to overcome the polarised domestic political environment.
Knirsch told reporters “all political forces” in support of the country’s European integration should participate in fulfilling the conditions and added “no party should stand aside” as their cooperation and united effort would be important to “overcome negative characteristic” of the polarisation.
The Ambassador said related debates arranged at the Parliament, and public demonstrations held to express citizens’ opinion a “legitimate discussion”, and stressed the significance of avoiding a discourse that would cast opposing sides as “illegitimate or incapable of working in Georgian politics”.
The ruling Georgian Dream party last week presented its strategy for fulfilling the 12-point conditions outlined by the Council for granting the country the EU membership candidate status later this year.
The government of Georgia acts with “necessary caution,” while the country “clearly” stands against aggression in international organisations, Hubert Knirsch, the German Ambassador to Georgiam said in the wake of Russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine on Friday.
The ruling Georgian Dream party on Friday presented its strategy for fulfilling the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Council for granting the country the European Union membership candidate status later this year.
A number of German political parties, including the opposition CDU/CSU faction, have launched a motion supporting a “rapid granting” of European Union membership candidate status to the Associated Trio countries Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, German media reported on Tuesday.
German Ambassador to Georgia Hubert Knirsch on Wednesday said he would participate in a public rally planned in Tbilisi in support of the country’s European Union integration and announced by Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili.
Civic activists, citizens, students and members of domestic opposition parties are gathered at a rally in support of Georgia’s European integration in capital Tbilisi, after the demonstration was called earlier by the civic movement Shame.
Levan Ioseliani, a member of the Citizens opposition party and the Vice Speaker of the Parliament, on Tuesday said the domestic opposition should work with the proposals presented by the ruling Georgian Dream party for fulfilling the European Union’s conditions for obtaining the membership candidate status later this year in addition to presenting its own vision.