Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Chair: Germany “one of most important” partners for Georgia in EU, NATO

Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, on Tuesday highlighted the importance of meeting the Vice President of the German Bundestag Katrin Göring-Eckardt by highlighting the role of Germany as "one of the most important" partners for Georgia in the European Union and NATO.

Samkharadze noted the meeting with the German official had focused on Georgia's path of joining the EU by receiving the membership candidate status.

“[W]e told her [Katrin Göring-Eckardt] that we were disappointed that Georgia had not received the candidate status [outright in June], but we also explained very clearly that the plan [for fulfilling EU conditions for the status] that we had presented would be thoroughly implemented”, the Parliament official said.

“We very much hope that the European Union will make a positive decision [on Georgia’s bid], to which the Vice President replied that if we fulfill all these issues [in the conditions], then we will have an unconditional support from Germany in the matter of receiving the candidate status”, he concluded in his comments.