Georgian Parliament Speaker, MEPs discuss country’s work on EU membership conditions
In other comments at the meeting, the Parliament Speaker expressed gratitude for the support of the European Parliament for the territorial integrity of Georgia and highlighted the importance of European perspective, granted by the European Commission to Georgia in June. Photo: Parliament of Georgia.
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Georgia’s European Union integration and implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the EU to the country for membership were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and David McAllister, the Head of a European Parliament delegation.
In response to a question from McAllister and other members of the delegation, Papuashvili said Georgia had already started the process of implementing the conditions and noted up to 15 meetings of committees and working groups would be held within two weeks for the work, the Georgian Parliament’s press office said.
Papuashvili also said the primary version of the draft bill had already been prepared on the condition involving proactive consideration of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg by the Georgian court, and pledged the Parliament would continue to “actively work” on the implementation process over the next six months, highlighting the importance of “close cooperation” in the process with the European Parliament.
In a related tweet, Papuashvili also said the support of the European Parliament on Georgia's path to “peace, prosperity” and EU integration process would be “valuable”.
Held an interesting meeting with @davidmcallister, Chair of @EP_ForeignAff & the Committee members on Georgia's EU membership process & developments in ????????. @Europarl_EN's support to Georgia on its path to peace, prosperity & ???????? would be valuable. pic.twitter.com/wMfSNXRvvG
— Shalva Papuashvili ???????? (@shpapuashvili) July 20, 2022
In other comments at the meeting, the Parliament Speaker expressed gratitude for the support of the European Parliament for the territorial integrity of Georgia and highlighted the importance of European perspective, granted by the European Commission to Georgia in June.
The fact that “serious work” on the implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Union to Georgia for membership is underway and both the ruling party and the opposition have presented their plans has “given us great hope”, David McAllister, the Head of a European Parliament delegation said in a joint press conference with Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili in Tbilisi on Wednesday.
Georgia must understand that the European perspective granted to the country by the European Parliament and the European Council is “extremely important”, President Salome Zourabichvili said in a joint press conference with Members of the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Peter Stano, the spokesperson for the external affairs of the European Union, on Friday said Georgia would “get everything it had been promised” from the EU on the membership candidate status.
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